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2 unusual facts about Luigi "Gigi" Segre


Monte Carlo Baby

Most Hepburn biographies indicate that it was during the filming of this movie that Hepburn was first discovered by the playwright Colette and chosen for the lead role in the play Gigi, which would lead to Hepburn launching her acting career in Hollywood.

Robyn Blythe

At the age of thirteen Robyn starred onstage as Laurie in the musical Oklahoma! Then at seventeen she was in the touring company of Gigi, which ended its run on Broadway.


Ana Torroja

That same year she did a duet with Italian singer Gigi D'Alessio, a new song called Bacio (kiss) in Italian, a cover of the same song also sung by Gigi D'Alessio with Anna Tatangelo.

Betty Wand

Betty Wand is an American singer and author, best known as the singing voice dubbed in for various actresses in musical films, including Leslie Caron in Gigi and some of Rita Moreno's part in West Side Story.

Cheryl McKay

She wrote the screen adaptations of Jim Stovall's novel The Ultimate Gift and Sheila Walsh' children's book Gigi: God's Little Princess.

Dorothy Bush Koch

She has two children, Sam and Ellie, by her first husband, William LeBlond, whom she married in 1982 and divorced in 1990, and two children, Robert and Gigi, by her second husband, Robert P. Koch, whom she married in June 1992 at Camp David.

Elmarie Wendel

Among her theater credits, she performed in, among other productions, Wonderful Town, Cole Porter Revisited, Little Mary Sunshine and Gigi.

Fulton Theatre

Audrey Hepburn starred in the Gilbert Miller production of Gigi, which opened at the Fulton on November 24, 1951, and ran for 219 performances.

Gheorghe Mulțescu

Gheorghe "Gigi" Mulțescu (born 13 November 1951 in Botoroaga, Romania) is a former football player, and a current football manager.

Gigi Becali

In 2012, Gigi Becali refused to sign French football player Florent Sinama-Pongolle on the basis that he was of black skin colour, even though Romanian football player Bănel Nicoliță, who played with him at the French club Saint-Etienne, said that the player was very talented.

Gigi e Andrea

Gigi Sammarchi (Bologna, 2 November 1949) and Andrea Roncato (San Lazzaro di Savena, 7 March 1947) are an Italian former comedy duo who worked on stage, films and television as Gigi e Andrea.

Gigi in Paradisco

Gigi in Paradisco is a bilingual French and English-language album released in 1980 by French singer Dalida.

Gigi MacKenzie

Gigi MacKenzie (born 1962) is a smooth jazz artist, daughter of the singer Gisele MacKenzie.

Gigi Meroni

In Munich, Germany, Italian immigrants founded in 1970 the football club US Gigi Meroni in his honour, which still exists today.

Gigi Sohn

Gigi Sohn is president and co-founder (with Laurie Racine and David Bollier) of Public Knowledge.

Les Bronzés

Gigi, Jerome, Christiane, Jean-Claude, and Bernard visit a resort in the Ivory Coast, the Club Med village of Assinie.

Luigi Segre

Luigi "Gigi" Segre (1919–1963) was an Italian automotive designer and engineer, leading the Carrozzeria Ghia from 1953, when Mario Boano left, until his death in 1963, from complications during surgery.

Tecno

Tecno Fes, extended play by electronica and dance music DJ Gigi D'Agostino

Thea Garrett

Recently Thea sang with famous Italian singer, Gigi D'Alessio on the opening night of his World tour in Rome and was again invited to sing in Milan, where this time Gigi accompanied Thea on his piano and let her sing one of his favorite songs as a soloist.

Tony Cedras

He has performed or recorded, most often on accordion, with various well-known artists, including Paul Simon, Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba, Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Cassandra Wilson, Hugh Masekela, Tony Bird and Gigi.

Uan Rasey

In 1949, he became first trumpet with the MGM film studio orchestra, playing on all the major MGM soundtracks from the Golden Age of Hollywood including An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain, Gigi, West Side Story (at United Artists), My Fair Lady (at Warner Bros.), Two for the Seesaw and Bye Bye Birdie (at Columbia Pictures), along with many others.

Virgil Exner

There he also worked with Luigi "Gigi" Segre, of Italian car company Carrozzeria Ghia S.p.A. The men created a strong personal bond, which helped link the companies closely throughout the 1950s.

Young and Dangerous

At the same time, Brother Fai Hung has the stuttering Smartie (Gigi Lai a.k.a Tania Sammy) carjack Ho Nam's Toyota MR2 and demands payment, but unfortunately she gets caught by Ho Nam and his friends and is punished by eating dozens of Chinese barbecue pork buns.


see also

African Americans in Davenport, Iowa

Another white Quad Cities musician, Louie Bellson (born "Luigi Ballasoni") of nearby Moline, Illinois, the son of a music store owner, played drums for the Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington bands, and married Pearl Bailey.

Bertagni

The birth of "Pastificio Bertagni" was in 1882 in the workshop of Luigi Bertagni in Bologna.

Cesare Segre

Cesare Segre (born 4 April 1928 in Verzuolo, Province of Cuneo) is an Italian philologist, semiotician and literary critic of Jewish descent, currently the Director of the Texts and Textual Traditions Research Centre of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS).

CICAP

CICAP was started by the Italian science journalist Piero Angela together with a group of scientists including Luigi Garlaschelli and others.

Conan II, Duke of Brittany

During Conan's 1066 campaign against Anjou, he took Pouancé and Segré, and arrived in Château-Gontier, where he was found dead after donning poisoned riding gloves.

Dark Moor

Dark Moor began the recording sessions for their second album, The Hall of the Olden Dreams, in August 2000 at New Sin Studios with producer Luigi Stefanini.

El Balcó del Pirineu

El Balcó del Pirineu was urbanised on 1975 on a mountain range on the left of river Segre, near of Montferrer and Castellciutat villages, in the same mountain range.

Giovanni Luigi Fieschi

Giovanni Luigi Fieschi (or Fiesco) (c. 1522 – 2 January 1547) was a Genoese nobleman, count of Lavagna.

Gran Passeig de Ronda, Lleida

It stretches from Plaça d'Europa towards Avinguda de l'Alcalde Areny on the bank of the river Segre, by the Pont Nou.

History of Genoa C.F.C.

The squad during these two championship victories included; Giovanni De Prà, Ottavio Barbieri, Luigi Burlando and Renzo De Vecchi.

Ignazio Visco

Saving and the Accumulation of Wealth (with Albert Ando and Luigi Guiso), Cambridge University Press, 1994

Jerry Vale

Jerry Vale (born Gennaro Luigi Vitaliano; July 8, 1932, The Bronx, New York) is an American singer.

Joseph, Duke of Parma

Joseph, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (Italian: Giuseppe Maria Pietro Paolo Francesco Roberto Tomaso-d'Aquino Andrea-Avellino Biagio Mauro Carlo Stanislao Luigi Filippo-Neri Leone Bernardo Antonio Ferdinando di Borbone-Parma e Piacenza; 30 June 1875 Biarritz – 7 January 1950 Pianore, Lucca, Italy) was the head of the House of Bourbon-Parma and the pretender to the defunct throne of Parma from 1939 to 1950.

Louie Russo

Luigi 'Louie' Russo is a fictional character in Mark Winegardner's The Godfather Returns.

Ludovico Gonzaga

Ludovico I Gonzaga (1268–1360), better known as Luigi, the first Capitano del Popolo ('Captain of the People') of Mantua and Imperial Vicar

Luigi

In the film, he was voiced by Yū Mizushima and had a different color scheme than he has today, sporting a blue cap, blue overalls, and a yellow shirt.

Like his brother, Luigi's voice actor changed in later cartoons, in his case to Tony Rosato.

In more recent appearances, Luigi's role became increasingly restricted to spinoffs such as the Mario Party and Mario Kart series, though he has been featured in a starring role on three occasions: first in the 1991 educational game Mario is Missing, in Luigi's Mansion for the Nintendo GameCube in 2001, and in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon for the 3DS.

Luigi Bellincioni

Luigi Bellincioni (Pontedera, January 1, 1842 – Florence, March 24, 1929) was an Italian architect and engineer.

Luigi Braschi Onesti

On Luigi's marriage to the richest lady of the Falconieri family, he was granted permission by Pius to build Palazzo Braschi off Piazza Navona, and from 1787 and 1795 he built another neoclassical Palazzo Braschi at Terracina, as a private residence for his uncle.

Luigi Calori

Luigi Calori was born in San Pietro in Casale in 1807, son of Teresa Gibelli and Francesco Calori.

Luigi del Riccio

Luigi del Riccio was an acquaintance of Michelangelo who was deeply hurt by the death of his nephew Cecchino Bracci.

Luigi Gabrielli

Born in Naples to a family originally from Gubbio, Luigi was the son of Antonio Gabrielli, a nobleman of progressive ideas who in 1799 had supported the Parthenopean Republic against the Bourbon kings.

Luigi Gnocchi

Luigi Gnocchi (Gallarate, 14 January 1933) was an Italian sprinter, that won three gold medals in one single edition of Mediterranean Games.

Luigi Gorrini

On 30 August, Gorrini claimed another B-17 "Flying Fortress" over Frascati and the same day he was mentioned on Bollettino di Guerra: "Sergente Maggiore Luigi Gorrini da Alseno (Piacenza) of 3o Stormo Caccia has distinguished himself during the aerial battles of the 27th and 29th, during which he has shot down two four-engined bombers and a twin-engined fighter."

Luigi Lucheni

Luigi Lucheni is a prominent character in the Michael Kunze/Sylvester Levay musical Elisabeth, where he serves as a bitter, sarcastic narrator of the events of Elisabeth's life and in the end becomes her executioner.

Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano

Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano (July 9, 1828, Bene Vagienna, Italy – December 7, 1913, Rome, Italy) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church in the late nineteenth century.

Luigi Querena

Following in the footsteps of his father Lattanzio, a painter of historical and religious works, Luigi Querena started at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts when he had just turned 12 and distinguished himself as a painter of views.

Luigi Rosselli

In Lausanne he studied at the Ecole Politechnique Federale (EPFL) a well-resourced university that managed to attract all the top architect of the time as guest professors – from Kenneth Frampton to Rafael Moneo and Alvaro Siza, with Umberto Riva being Luigi’s thesis mentor.

Luigi Voltan

The Luigi Voltan Shoe Company is a shoemaker founded in the Italian village of Stra in 1898 by Giovanni Luigi Voltan (1873–1941).

New Italian Epic

In March 2009 the PhD programme Planetary Collegium M-Node, along with the School of Media Design and Multimedia Arts of the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan organised the symposium ‘New Italian (Media) Epic’, with the presence of Wu Ming 1, Derrick De Kerckhove, Pier Luigi Capucci, Francesco Monico, and many others including film-makers, artists and media theorists.

Night Flight

Volo di notte (Night Flight), an opera adaptation of Saint Exupéry's book by Luigi Dallapiccola

Penne alla vodka

Paula Franzese, an American law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law, has asserted that her father Luigi Franzese, born in Naples, Italy in 1931, devised the first version of penne alla vodka, which he called penne alla Russa because of the addition of the vodka to his tomato and cream sauce base.

Picco Luigi Amedeo

The first ascent of the entire Brouillard ridge including Picco Luigi Amedeo was by Karl Blodig, Humphrey Owen Jones, Geoffrey Winthrop Young with the guide Josef Knubel of St. Niklaus in the canton Valais on 9 August 1911.

Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma

In 1547 a conspiracy was arranged against him by counts Francesco Anguissola and Agostino Landi and the marquises Giovan Luigi Confalonieri and Girolamo and Alessandro Pallavicini.

Piero Piccioni

Many directors sought Piero Piccioni to score the soundtracks for their films: Francesco Rosi, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Comencini, Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Tinto Brass, Dino Risi, and others.

Romain Duris

Duris lives in Paris near La Bastille with his actress girlfriend Olivia Bonamy with whom he has a son, Luigi, born February 10, 2009.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan

Cardinal Scola is assisted by a Vicar General, the Auxiliary Bishop Mario Delpini, and two other Auxiliary Bishops, Erminio De Scalzi and Luigi Stucchi.

Ronald Shakespear

Diseño Shakespear designed Identity Programs for the most important Argentine companies as Avex, Banco Galicia, Luigi Bosca, Banco Patagonia, Luigi Bosca, Boca Juniors, Duty Free Shop, Red Link, Oca, Banelco, Harrods,and hundreds more.

Segre

Corrado Segre (1863–1924), Italian geometer distantly related to Beniamino