Les Girls 1957 123movies

Watch: Les Girls 1957 123movies, Full Movie Online – In London, the former dancer of the Barry Nichols and Les Girls Company and presently Lady Sybil Wren is sued by her former roommate and fellow dancer Angèle Ducros. Sybil wrote a best-seller based on her memoirs from the time she was a dancer and lived with Angèle and Joanne ‘Joy’ Henderson and in a chapter she discloses the affair of Angèle with Barry and how she committed an attempt of suicide when Barry left her. However, Angèle tells a different story to the court and discloses that Sybil was indeed who had an affair with Barry. Finally Barry comes to the court and tells his side of the story..
Plot: After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe “Barry Nichols and Les Girls”, Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 2,899
	89% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 41 Popularity: 4.907 | TMDB

Reviews:

Sophisticated Musical with Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall and George Cukor’s Skills
The musical “Les Girls” (1957) is curious, I suggest for many reasons. It has three leading ladies, only a few very good musical numbers and a plot that is heavy on satirical comedy, with four distinct sections. It is also embedded within a trial about libel and takes part very largely indoors; yet it is arguably filled with clear ‘action’ from start to finish. John Patrick’s screenplay I find clever and the dialog perhaps very good. Vera Casparay’s story gave us three different versions of mostly the same events, with a subtle shift forward in time each time. Director George Cukor used shots from heights and clever low angles to give an extra dimension to what otherwise might have been boring indoor shots (in less-capable hands). The film produced by Saul Chaplin and Sol Siegel looks lovely in Technicolor and seems sumptuous as well as convincing throughout, I suggest. The cinematography by Robert Surtees, acting as director of photography, the vivid art direction by Gene Allen and William A. Horning and the set decorations by Richard Pefferle and the great Edwin Willis complement the well-matched art direction very well indeed, in my opinion. Among the film’s musical numbers, “Ca C’est L’Amour”, “You’re Too Too” and the rope ballet seemed the most memorable moments to me. Orry-Kelly’s wardrobe and costumes and the musical department’s contributions stand out; Jack Cole and Alex Romero are credited with the choreography, no doubt with ideas from the star Gene Kelly. In featured roles, Jacques Bergerac, Henry Daniell as the judge, and Leslie Phillips and Patrick MacNee all make very strong impressions with little to work with. The three ladies in the act “Barry Nichols and Les Girls”, are Kay Kendall, Taina Elg and Mitzi Gaynor. Kendall deserves an Oscar for her range of comedy and dramatic moments in the film, by my standards; Mitzi Gaynor is a good dancer and delivers both a decent characterization and some fine one-liners without being vocally strong. Taina Elg is the surprise–by turns charming, mischievous and intelligent; her accent perhaps harmed her opportunity to play more comedies within a shrinking 50’s movie industry. Kelly is believable throughout and perhaps has never danced better. This film that retails the interplay among four interesting people on “the road” in Europe in the 1950s is undoubtedly both beautifully directed and professionally mounted. It has, I say as a writer, discreet charm, some nice comedic and emotional moments and a pace that director Cukor and the cast never allow to falter. It deserves more credit than it has ever been given, and I believe awards for some of its finest achievers’ work exhibited herein.

Great entertainment!
Copyright 1957. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. New York opening at the Radio City Music Hall: 3 October 1957 (ran 6 weeks). U.K. release: 22 December 1957. Australian release: 12 December 1957. 10,278 feet. 114 minutes.

SYNOPSIS: Which of his three dancing partners is Barry Nichols in love with?

NOTES: One of the last original (as opposed to Broadway adaptations) big-screen musicals, this movie also stands in the record books as Cole Porter’s last score and Gene Kelly’s last film for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. While the critics loved it (the film came in 6th in the Film Daily’s annual poll of film critics and commentators) and New Yorkers took it to their hearts, the rest of the nation was pretty well indifferent. I remember seeing it with a very modest crowd at its L.A. showcase.

COMMENT: A most stylish and invigorating musical, “Les Girls” gives the impression that director Cukor set out to emulate the best of Minnelli, whilst producer Siegel threw down a similar challenge to Arthur Freed.

Like all the very, very best musicals, the plot of “Les Girls” is particularly strong. In fact, so fascinating and appealing is it that our novel story and its colorful characters actually tends to overshadow the musical numbers — even with a score by the great Cole Porter.

Naturally, being a Cukor film, the acting is particularly enchanting. Kay Kendall enacts a most difficult role with a consummately delightful ease which will set both critics and fans cheering.

Taina (pronounced “Tina” to rhyme with China) Elg also handles a challenging role with considerable skill and finesse. In fact, she even succeeds in eliciting and maintaining audience sympathy for a character who is too worldly-wise for her own good.

Both comediennes receive able support from the two men in their lives, namely British stalwart Leslie Phillips and charming (if aptly a little stiff) Frenchman, Jacques Bergerac.

It is the wonderful Mitzi Gaynor who receives somewhat short shrift from the script. True, she looks most attractive, but it is not until the third of the story flashbacks that she has anything much to do. And as for her singing and dancing abilities, these are hardly catered for at all. Her numerous fans from “South Pacific” are going to be mighty disappointed.

Mr. Kelly of course is much his usual calculatedly easy-going self. As mentioned above, “Les Girls” is nothing if not stylish. The color, the sets, the costumes — all represent M-G-M musical craftsmanship and artistry at its highest. If the movie is not a masterpiece, it’s not for want of creativity and sensibility, it’s simply that the score itself is — by Porter standards — somewhat second-rate.

OTHER VIEW: I don’t consider myself a director of musicals, like Minnelli or Stanley Donen. There’s something illogical about musicals: people open their mouths and start singing, all of a sudden. It has to be done with a certain amount of style, not realistic at all. Did you notice how carefully color was used in “Les Girls”? Color- coordinator George Hoyningen-Huene and I decided to give each girl a color to herself, that would color each girl’s sequence. Sometimes there was no color at all, which whets your appetite for later. Of course, we also had Gene Allen working with us, a very talented designer and now, sometimes, a writer. Gene is credited with George for designing the main title, but he actually did much, much more than that. – George Cukor.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Comedy, Musical
Director George Cukor
Writer John Patrick, Vera Caspary
Actors Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 8 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) (Westrex Recording System), Mono (35 mm optical prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Metrocolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm