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Then comes Gigi. If Gaston and Honore want to treat women as little more than the stuff of shopping escapades. Mamita and Aunt Alicia (Betsy Palmer) will gladly help design the set While Honore keeps busy tutoring Gaston in the rules of the game--for status value, little can rival driving a spurned lady to attempt suicide Mamita enlists Aunt Alicia to perform daily finishing lessons seemingly as de rigeur as piano lessons for the varsity social climbers of New York in the 80's, or anytime for that matter...
...only people who make love all the time," Aunt Alicia tells Gigi, "are liars." Aunt Alicia tells Gigi lots of things. Never accept semi-precious stones: to be caught alive wearing an opal is as offensive to her as to be caught dead in substandard undergarments is to Ann Landers. "Bad table manners," she warns, "have broken up more homes than infidelity...
Betsy Palmer makes the perfect Aunt Alicia, her every movement about the stage a miniature dance, her overflowing charm an endearing antidote to Alicia's more biting lines, her every movement about the stage practically a miniature dance. In what could easily be the most dated and even offensive scene in Gigi, "The Contract Song," where she negotiates Gigi's marriage arrangements with Gaston's lawyer, Palmer establishes herself as the unquestioned star of this show, a brilliant standard that Jourdan never matches...
...wandering alone: "I probably prefer to travel with my chimeras, and leave the baby behind. Someone said once that traveling with your family was like waltzing with your aunt...
Sally, a rehearsed volunteer from the class, is way ahead of Uncle Harry. "I think I hear Aunt Mary coming home," she says. When he tries to make her promise that what has happened is "just our little secret," she replies firmly, "No, I'm going to tell Mom and Aunt Mary." That shuts down Uncle Harry. When the leader asks the class if Sally wanted to sit close, they chorus, "No! Did he force her? "Yes!" Did she want to kiss Uncle Harry...