![]() ![]() In the 1997 film Wag the Dog, the song performed by Chevalier is used as backdrop for an election campaign ad. 1h 55m IMDb RATING 6.6 /10 24K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 3:30 1 Video 87 Photos Comedy Musical Romance Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long. In the Happy Days season 5 episode "Be My Valentine" (February 14, 1978), a then-18-year-old Scott Baio sang it as part of a series of musical numbers commemorating Valentine's Day. It has been performed by Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, GĂ©rard Depardieu, Merle Haggard, Hugh Hefner, The King Brothers, Ed McMahon, and in his faux French accent, Peter Sellers. Bing Crosby recorded the song for his radio show in 1960 and it subsequently was released on the CD Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around. This recording later was repurposed by PepsiCo for its Pepsi Max brand in the United Kingdom. ![]() In the mid-1990s, a contemporary take on the song was recorded by the Seattle-based alternative band Ruby for a Mountain Dew commercial in the United States. Gigi (1958) - (Movie Clip) Thank Heaven For Little Girls After the elaborate overture and opening, Lachaille (Maurice Chevalier) with the famous Lerner and Loewe number 'Thank Heaven For Little Girls,' from Vincente Minnelli's best picture winner Gigi, 1958. ![]() In 2004, it finished at #56 on AFI's 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. Filed Under: Theater, Maurice Chevalier, Gigi. The Chevalier version is often regarded as the definitive version of the song he recorded it in 1958. The Maurice Chevalier-as-a-pervert thing was quite distressing to me when I realized how deep it went for some people, says Ms. Alfred Drake performed the song in the 1973 Broadway stage production of Gigi, and in the 2015 revival, it was sung as a duet between Victoria Clark and Dee Hoty. "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" is a 1957 song written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and associated with Maurice Chevalier, its original performer. We met at nine, we met at eight, I was on time, no, you were late Ah, yes, I remember it well We dined with friends, we dined alone, a tenor sang, a baritone Ah, yes, I remember it well That dazzling April moon, there was none that night And the month was June, that's right, that's right It warms my heart to know that you remember still the way. When Gaston falls in love with Gigi and asks her to be his wife, Jeans is appalled: never has anyone in their family ever stooped to anything so bourgeois as marriage Weaving in and out of the story is Maurice Chevalier as an aging boulevardier who, years earlier, had been in love with Gingold's character. This scene from the 1958 film Gigi shows stars Louis Jourdan sitting across from Leslie Caron, with Maurice Chevalier standing to the front of them. ![]()
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