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...winning label that made a delightful book for Colette, one of the first great musicals by the Lerner and Lowe team that brought Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and Camelot (1960), and swept nine academy awards in 1958 for the film version. We even see Louis Jourdan, who first achieved popular fame as Gaston, return as Honore, the role immortalized by Maurice Chevalier...
...though the label seems the same, the first taste of Jourdan apparently lip-syncing Chevalier's memorable "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" painfully suggests that this vintage hit has less matured than turned with...
...matters little that Jourdan has starred in; films as diverse as Madame Bavary, Can-Can, and the Silver Bears, played everyone from a BBC Dracula to a sinister would-be James Bond nemesis in Octopussy. For anyone who has ever seen the MGM movie classic Gigi, Louis Jourdan is Gaston, the inveterate playboy with interminable ennui. To fixate momentarily on his Gallic features summons up visions of Jourdan-Gaston beside the original Honore (Maurice Chevalier) forever repeating. "It's a bore...
...hard to look at Jourdan now and imagine that much has really changed. Grandfather and counselor d'amour to Gaston, and narrator of the show, Honore calls himself "old enough to know my faults, but young enough to still enjoy them." It is only half-true of Jourdan. With jet black hair and the perfect aristocratic amble, he looks young enough to enjoy almost anything...anything, that is, but his role as Honore. He sings "I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore" as though he believes the lines even less than we. That he appears to lip-sync this...
...Cold Nose, and Mr. Homer, who had a booming Bostonian voice with which he asked every child over the age of six: "When do you plan to enroll at Harvard?" On the floor above ours in No. 36 lived three spinster ladies, Miss Prescott, Miss Cutler and Miss Jourdan, who would hire a car on Christmas Eve to drive them up and down Fifth Avenue so that they might enjoy the store displays. These were the sorts who would gather in the park and sing. Once the caroling was finished, they would not weep or embrace or say sentimental things...