Les Girls

• Gene Kelly: Barry Nichols
• Mitzi Gaynor: Joanne "Joy" Henderson
• Kay Kendall: Lady Sybil Wren
• Taina Elg: Angèle Ducros
• Jacques Bergerac: Pierre Ducros
• Leslie Phillips: Sir Gerald Wren
• Henry Daniell: Judge
• Patrick Macnee: Sir Percy
• Stephen Vercoe: Mr. Outward
• Philip Tonge: Associate Justice
• Richard Alexander: stagehand
• Frank Arnold: Taxi driver
• Barrie Chase: dancer
• Lilyan Chauvin: Dancer
• Nestor Paiva: Pedestrian

The Girls is an American film musical by George Cukor from the year 1957. Was formed on a story by Vera Caspary. Alternative Film titles are girls and Les Girls - The Dancers.

Action

A book up a storm. Posted it has the former dancer Sybil, who has written in numerous anecdotes of her days as a dancer. One is that her former roommate, colleague and friend Angèle wanted to commit suicide for love of a man. But the man was not her future husband and then fiance - Angèle sued for libel Sybil now.

In court initially portrays Sybil their view of things. You and Joy Henderson shared a flat in Paris and were in the Revue Barry Nichols and Les Girls in the theater Parisien employed. The young Angèle dancing before at Head Barry and is set as the third principal dancer. She prefers to Sybil and Joy and will soon begin an affair with Barry, who want to keep both in vain before the two women secret. One day, however Angeles fiance Pierre appears in the city, Angèle has always played that she works as a nurse. Barry, in turn, knows nothing of Pierre, he would never set Angèle, if he had known of a relationship. As Angèle during a performance noticed that Pierre is sitting in the audience, it gets completely out of the socket, trying to hide behind their Mittänzerinnen and leaves the stage prematurely. When she did not appear even to a subsequent dance performance with Barry and disgraced him with Barry dismisses them still in the theater. As Sybil short time later comes into her apartment, Angèle has been turned on the gas. It was only in the hospital, she 's coming around.

After Sybil's statement the following day Angèle must present their view of things. She came to Paris and lives with Sybil and Joy in an apartment. Sybil, however, has a drinking problem that want to hide all three women before Barry. As this is a day in the apartment of the women, Angèle can convince him that Sybil just drinking because she is secretly in love with him. Rather than dismiss Sybil, now Barry takes care of them especially around and both are a couple. Sybil stops drinking and the Revue will go on tour through Europe. After Rome, Vienna and Madrid it comes to Granada, where Sybil meets her admirers and almost forgotten Fastverlobten Gerald. The Sybil wants to get back to the UK and Barry even offers a private theater for the Revue. He is not averse, but wants to be with Barry and not go back to Gerald Sybil. So you lied to both men, why cooperation is not possible, and in the end it comes to a fight between two men. Barry opened Sybil that he had started out of pity to love and Sybil expires again the alcohol. It occurs drunk and is therefore dismissed from Barry. As Angèle comes to the apartment, she smells gas odor and can open the windows before they even faints and wakes up in hospital, where Sybil is already gone.

Because they contradict the testimony of Sybil and Angele, is heard at the end of Barry. He confirmed that all three women were employed in his revue in Paris and lived together. While Sybil and Angele went out a lot, he felt attracted to Joy, who is down to earth and prefer holding a book and foot spa stays at home and the men also keeps at bay. Reluctantly she allowed him to take her home and rejects his love, because it combines a marriage with true love. Once in his apartment, Barry receives a visit from Pierre and Gerald, both would rather have her fiance with him as far in his revue. Even Barry likes the idea perform alone with Joy in their own theater and he remembers a plan. He pretends to be a heart condition. Worried Joy convinces Sybil and Angele secretly as they terminate in the Revue, so Barry is spared. Follow their request - as Barry Joy confesses to have invented just for Gerald and Pierre, Joy leaves him furious. Barry rushes towards her apartment and smelling the smell of gas - he finds Sybil and Angele lying unconscious in the apartment before. A gas pipe had come loose. Both women are taken to a hospital.

Since the alleged suicide has now turned out to be an accident, the lawsuit is dropped. Sybil and Angele reconcile public appeal and Barry goes to his waiting car. Drin again sitting Joy. She is now his wife and has been following the trial. Like the man who walks every day with the shield slung "What is Truth" in front of the Courthouse, guess they too now that even Barry has not told the whole truth. Some statements by Angèle and Sybil quite fill gaps in Barry's story, so Joy's opinion - what Barry with the sigh "My goodness, must go again," acknowledged.

Production

The costumes were designed by Orry- Kelly.

In the film, numerous titles are sung, for the Cole Porter wrote the music and lyrics. Kay Kendall was then synchronized by Betty Wall:

• Les Girls - Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall / Betty Wall, Mitzi Gaynor, Taina Elg ( song and dance )
• Ça c'est l' amour - Taina Elg ( song and dance )
• Ladies in Waiting - Kay Kendall / Betty Wall, Mitzi Gaynor, Taina Elg ( song and dance )
• You're Just Too Too! - Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall / Betty Wall ( song and dance )
• Why Am I So Gone (About did Gal)? - Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor ( Gaynor only dance, Kelly dancing and singing )
• The Rope Dance - Gene Kelly, Taina Elg ( just dance)

Criticism

The lexicon of the International film called The girls as "the most conventional of the few [ ... ] musicals staged Cukor ". In the " female [n ] footnote to Rashomon game to the truth," working with the film " farbdramaturgisch interesting flashbacks ".

Awards

The Girls 1958 was nominated for three Academy Awards and won the award in the category " Best Costume Design".

In the same year the film won two Golden Globes. He was in the category " Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy " category. Taina Elg and Kay Kendall shared the prize in the category " Best Actress - Musical or Comedy ".

The best musical actress Mitzi Gaynor was honored in 1958 for the girls with a Laurel Award. As the best -written American musical was The Girls 1958 WGA Award from the Writers Guild of America.