Wait… exactly how many times did the people at Disney watch Gigi while creating the original Beauty and the Beast? Gigi herself is similar to Belle, in that she is unaffected, and more freethinking than others wish she was. Gaston also wasn’t a character’s name in the original Beauty and the Beast story. Gaston is quite pompous, and has women falling at his feet. Speaking of Beauty and The Beast connections, Chevalier’s character, Honoré, is the uncle to the main male character Gaston. It is also said that “Be Our Guest” was written intentionally to resemble “Thank Heaven For Little Girls.” Let’s start with the first song we hear in Gigi, “Thank Heaven For Little Girls,” which starts off, “when I see a girl of six or seven….” Umm… that’s creepy, no? It does make one smile, however, thinking of Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast.Jerry Orbach based his performance (and accent) as Lumiere on Maurice Chevalier in Gigi, and it shows. Image via MGM Gigi Was Clearly Influential