Gigot should have won him an Academy Award. what a revelation that was to people who only knew him as a TV guy.
The film’s story was Gleason’s idea and he also wrote the musical score.
That film, I believe, was an enormous bomb. He did do excellent work in films, but some of them, such as “Gigot” and “Papa’s Delicate Condition”, I believe, both performed rather poorly at the box office.