Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Fair Lady" and "Camelot". "Gigi" was a box-office and critical success which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. From it came several hit songs, including "Thank Heaven For Little Girls", "I Remember It Well", the "Waltz at Maxim's", and the Oscar-winning title song. The film was the last MGM musical to win a Best Picture Oscar, an honor that had previously gone to "The Broadway Melody" (1929), "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936), and "An American in Paris" (1951). The very last musical film produced by the "Freed Unit" was an adaptation of the Broadway musical "Bells Are Ringing" (1960) with
Thank Heaven for Little Girls tunes in American cinema. In the mid-1990s, a contemporary take on the song was recorded by the Seattle-based alternative band Ruby for a Mountain Dew commercial in the United States. This recording was later repurposed by PepsiCo for their Pepsi Max brand in the UK. Bing Crosby recorded the song for his radio show in 1960 and it was subsequently released on the CD "Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around..." (2014). It has also been performed by Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Gérard Depardieu, Merle Haggard, Hugh Hefner, The King Brothers, Ed McMahon, and in his faux