Product Description

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/22/2003 Starring: Gene Kelly Kay Kendall Run time: 114 minutes Rating: Nr Director: George Cukor

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43772 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2003-04-22
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 114 minutes

Amazon.com
Never heard of Kay Kendall? Chic, leggy, funny Kay Kendall? Check out Les Girls, one of the best moments for the beautiful British actress (and wife of Rex Harrison), whose promising career ended when she died two years after this film's 1957 release. A cheeky musical variation on Rashomon, the film gives three flashbacks on the Parisian sojourn of a dance master (Gene Kelly) and his featured artists (Kendall, Tania Elg, Mitzi Gaynor). The film isn't a peak outing for director George Cukor, and the Cole Porter songs are infrequent and not top-drawer. But there's a kooky dance number inspired by motorcycle gangs (Kelly in Wild Ones territory), and Kendall has a long drunk scene that she handles with regal aplomb. A stuffy suitor asks les girls why they spend their youth scurrying around Europe in a dance troupe: "Is having fun so important?" The film answers a resounding "mais oui." -- Robert Horton

Customer Reviews

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.

'SWONDERFUL, 'SFABULOUS, 'STO BE SEEN OFTEN!
Rarely seen - but retored to TOTAL fabulousness on this PRISTINE DVD ~ THIS IS A MUST-SEE!

ESPECIALLY, if you have never heard of the much, much lamented and sadly missed KAY KENDALL ~ what a fabulous performance! Miss Kendall is funny, witty, charming and she sings too! As for 'that' drunk scene ! AND - yes, in one or another way it IS a musical version of 'Rashomon ' seen through various bejewelled eyes and gloves!

Dance numbers? Different and timeless.

Sound? Great restoration by the experts.

AND the rest of the ladies? TANIA ELG, and MITZI GAYNOR [STILL 'HERE']form just a perfect trio with Miss Kendall. {Tania's audition is quite a hoot - as is the rather avant-garde Mitze Gaynor 'Wild Ones' [cycle gang] dance number with Icon Gene Kelly}.

Mr. Kelly is a smart, sexy, seductive and utterly brilliant leading man ~ a gracious legacy!

You cannot fail, but to be yanked out of the blues with this one!

LES GIRLS-A brilliant musical cinema event
...LES GIRLS is my alltime favorite movie musical.
As an actor who has spent his life in musical theatre, the story is a delightful backstage romp that was reminiscent of some of the events that TRULY take place. Perhaps this is what the "other" reviewer found objectionable. Yes there are women running around in their underwear ...the leading man (Gene Kelly) has flirtations and... affairs w/his dancers... and winds up happy w/Mitzi, which I imagine is many a male's fantasy...BR>The score is terrific, and w/the delightful comedienne Kay Kendall handling the laughs, there are many.
So when it arrives on the 25th I'll be first in line to purchase several copies (for friends AND [loved ones]!!!).
Sit back, relax, enjoy the ride and savor what is truly one of the most "perfect" showbiz musical ever.