Throwback Thursday Musical Showcase: Sophie Tucker and Maurice Chevalier Sing "I Remember it Well" in 1958

On this Throwback Thursday we're turning the clock back 64 years to 1958, when the musical film Gigi was released. The film starred Leslie Caron, Louis Jordan, Maurice Chevalier, and Hermione Gingold.

The Lerner and Loewe film won nine Oscars and featured some wonderful songs, including I Remember it Well, a duet by Chevalier and Gingold. In the same year, Chevalier sang the song on the Ed Sullivan Show, with Sophie Tucker as his partner in the duet.

Tucker, born Sofia Kalish, was known for her powerful delivery of comical and risqué songs. She was one of the most popular entertainers in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century. She was known by the nickname "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas".

Enjoy!

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The Great Jewish Entertainers: Hermione Gingold - "I Remember it Well"

Continuing our series on The Great Jewish Entertainers, we're heading "across the pond" to  reminisce about one of our favorite British character actresses, Hermione Gingold.

Watching the movie musical Gigi, we especially enjoyed I Remember it Well, the spoken/sung repartee between Gingold and Maurice Chevalier.

According to Wikipedia, Gingold was born in London to a prosperous Vienna-born Jewish stockbroker James Gingold and his wife, Kate, who came from a "well-to-do Jewish family". Although she was descended from the celebrated Solomon Sulzer, a famous synagogue cantor and Jewish liturgical composer in Vienna, Gingold grew up with no particular religious beliefs.
 
After a successful career in England as a child actress, Gingold later established herself on the stage as an adult, playing in comedy, drama, radio, and revue.  From the early 1950s Gingold lived and made her career mostly in the U.S. where she played formidable elderly characters in such films and stage musicals as Gigi (1958), Bell, Book and Candle (1958), The Music Man (1962) and A Little Night Music (1973).

Here is the memorable I Remember it Well number with Chevalier. Enjoy!

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