The handsome Gaston is loved by all the women of Paris in which musical?

In 1958's Oscar winning picture Louis Jourdan plays the impossibly handsome Gaston Lachaille, Paris' most eligible bachelor. The ultra-wealthy son of a sugar importer escapes the boredom of Parisian society with the family of one of his uncle's former mistresses and her granddaughter Gigi. This platonic relationship changes as he becomes aware that the young Gigi is becoming a beautiful young woman.

The movie won 9 Oscars including Best Picture. It was based on a novella by Collete and a previous movie by the same name. It is considered to be the last of the great MGM musicals.

While Gigi's Gaston has little resemblance to the arrogant Gaston of Beauty and the Beast, Lumierre bears a similarity to Maurice Chevalier's character Honore Lachaille, Gaston's uncle.

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Dirk A Schnarr

Same name in Beauty and the Beast

jmw

Of course I am right. I think all of us women know that. I still play the music from GiGi Such Romance!!!!!!!

Donna R. O'Brien Moran

Agree with Richard and Tina. BEAUTY & THE BEAST is also correct. We should get our points.

Ellen R Grotenstein Glass

Richard Morrison, Beauty and the beast takes place in the countryside in a small village, not Paris. That makes Gigi the only correct answer.

Tina Sherman

Beauty & the Beast also correct

Donna R. O'Brien Moran

I remember Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. Did not remember Gigi’s Uncle Gaston. Answered incorrectly.

Beau Shilkraut

Can't be beauty. That story never made it close to Paris. And all the women didn't love that Gaston. Well...at least one of them didn't.

nrichey

Gaston was also loved by all of the girls in Beauty and the Beast. Both answers should count.

Richard D. Boyle

Only one right answer. PARIS is the key word.

Chris Braid

Went fot beauty and the beast because of the name Gaston!

Brian G

B&B is not set in Paris . . . How do we know that this Gaston was loved in Paris?

Calvin Harasemchuk

Beauty and the Beast....

Louise C.

I was so sure that it was Beauty and the Beast

Nic Irish

Beauty and the Beast is not set in Paris, so can't be correct.

Felicity Hewitt

Beauty and the Beast

Ludlow Bushmat

You guys.....really......beauty and the beast wasn't in Paris. It was in some backwater hamlet. That's why Belle was always daydreaming..."There must be more than this provincial place." The girls in Paris never heard of this bozo