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| ACTORS: | Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | George Cukor |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1957 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Musical |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 012569570924 |
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Customer Reviews of Les Girls
Ding-ding-ding-ding.... The whole production is a beautiful enigma. On the one hand, it has Gene Kelly and George Cukor and the smart, smooth music of Cole Porter. But the stucture of the plot seems to be a bit bumpy, and most of this bumpiness seems to stem from the RASHOMON-like tale starting, stopping, and starting again over two hours. A lot of people seem to think that the Porter score was sub-par; I wholeheartedly disagree. An especially beautiful sequence is a rowboat scene between Kelly and Taina Elg which segues into the love song "Ca C'est L'amour." Also clever are the burlesque turn of "Ladies In Waiting" and the vaudeville-like "You're Just Too, Too" which pairs Kelly with the rapturous Kay Kendall. Kendall is, in many ways, the real star of LG with her deft comedy and her cool, elegant beauty. Knowing that she died shortly after completing this film (and so young) makes the experience all the more distraught. Still, Mitzi Gaynor is a dish (especially when dancing with Kelly in a sexy black dress) and Kendall is a comic revealation (drunkenly singing opera for five straight minutes!) Thank goodnes it's on widescreen DVD where it belongs.
Is this a musical?
I recorded this off TCM, hoping to see Mitzi Gaynor in something better than "South Pacific." I knew it wasn't going to work out when I saw that it was directed by George Cukor, the infamous director of "Let's Make Love" and other disasters. After getting treated to some glitzy opening titles you get plunged into a mind-blowingly tedious scene in an English courtroom; after that there was some nonsense in Paris I couldn't be bothered to pay attention to. At this point I was too demoralized to even scan through the movie to look for the song-and-dance numbers (if there are any) and deleted it.
Very enjoyable!
I showed this to my middle school dance class and they loved it. I did too! If you love musicals from this era, it's a must-see!