Based on the novella of the same name by Collette, this musical film is set in turn-of-the-20th-century Paris and Deauville.  Several amazing characters’  lives interconnect: Gaston, the bored bon vivant; Honore, the old lover-man who narrates much of the story;  the youthful and precocious Gigi; and Madame Alvarez, Gigi’s caring grandmother, who keeps a watchful eye on everything going on.  While Gaston is away in Monte Carlo, Madame Alvarez decides to groom Gigi in the finer arts and proper social etiquette, hoping she’ll become  Gaston’s love interest. When Gaston returns, he’s shocked by the transformation of Gigi. From a skinny, impetuous young girl, she has become a stunningly beautiful, well-poised woman. Gaston takes her for a night out at Maxim’s. It doesn’t go well. He’s conflicted with his growing feelings of love for Gigi and the attention she’s getting from others in the room. They split and both are heartbroken. But, thank goodness, Gaston sees the light, and, singing  the heart-rendering “Gigi,” he races to her apartment where he shockingly asks Madame Alvarez for Gigi’s hand in marriage. Honore concludes the film singing, “Thank Heaven for Little Girls (They Grow Up in the Most Delightful Way).” Music by Frederick Lowe; lyrics and screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner.