That was his nature, in his way of speaking and behaving, his gestures,” said Minne. “His legacy in the industry was that he brought some kind of French elegance. “It was quite revolutionary for him to accept playing a homosexual on stage,” said Minne, his biographer. In “Julie” (1955) he had a chance to break from the stereotype by playing Doris Day’s psychotic husband and television and stage work also provided more varied roles, including playing a homosexual attracted to a man played by James Dean in “The Immortalist” on Broadway. In addition to “Gigi,” Jourdan’s notable films included “Three Coins in the Fountain” (1954), “The Swan” (1955) with Grace Kelly, “The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful” (1956) with Brigitte Bardot and “Can-Can” (1960), which co-starred Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine. The occupying Nazis ordered Jourdan to make propaganda films but instead he fled back to the south of France, where he joined his brothers in printing and distributing pamphlets for the French Resistance.
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He took his mother’s last name for his movie career, which had just begun when it was interrupted by World War Two. Jourdan grew up as Louis Gendre in Cannes, where his father was a hotelier, and went to the prestigious Ecole Dramatique in Paris to study acting. Jourdan sang the movie’s title tune and it won the Oscar for best song, even though Maurice Chevalier’s “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” in the film was perhaps more memorable. “Gigi” dominated the 1959 Academy Awards with nine Oscars, a record at the time, including best picture and best director for Vincente Minnelli.
Jourdan starred in “Gigi,” one of the most successful movies of the 1950s, as the dashing Gaston, who realizes he is falling for the title character, played by Leslie Caron, as she evolves from tomboy to courtesan-in-training.
Jourdan, who also worked frequently on stage and television, died at home, Olivier Minne, his friend and biographer, told Reuters by telephone from Paris. (Reuters) - French actor Louis Jourdan, who played a suave bon vivant in the Oscar-winning film “Gigi” and had a long reign as Hollywood’s top choice to play elegant international gentlemen, died on Saturday at the age of 93, his biographer said.
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