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Gigi
195216936New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1952. First Edition. Hardcover. some wear to top and bottom edges of covers otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket has a bit of light soiling tiny stain on rear panel. B&W photographs "The first non-musical hit of the season" reads the first jacket blurb -- so of course when Hollywood got around to it the first thing they thought was "hey this thing could really use some songs!" Not a bad decision though since the resulting film managed to not only get past the censors who were concerned because lovely young Gigi was after all "in training" to be a high-class courtesan but also to take home the "Best Picture" Oscar for 1958. The novel was originally published in 1944 and had been filmed in France in 1948. The Broadway version made a star of Audrey Hepburn who is featured in all three of the photographs in this edition but of course they hadda get a real French girl Leslie Caron for the movie. . Random House hardcover books
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