Leslie Caron

...young Gigi, played by Audrey Hepburn. The play, which made Hepburn a star, was based on the same novel by the French author Colette that was later turned into a Hollywood musical starring Leslie Caron. In the late 1950s he played Henry...

In this article: Michael Evans, Gigi, Audrey Hepburn, Victor Newman, The Young and the Restless, World War I, World War II, Royal Air Force, and Parisian

...and Minnelli voted to include it in the film. Leslie Caron and Louis Jourdan Having second thoughts about Audrey Hepburn, Freed asked Lerner to meet with her in Paris, but she declined the role. The producer then asked him to fly to London to...

In this article: Gigi, Gaston, Alan Jay Lerner, Arthur Freed, Frederick Loewe, Maurice Chevalier, Gigi, Paris, and Colette

To Scheider's tough guy, Mel Ferrer, 90, was Mr. Soulful Softie, scoring as the hobbled puppeteer opposite Leslie Caron in Lili and as Prince Andrei in War and Peace, where he costarred with the fourth of his five wives, Audrey Hepburn.

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...Mena. Ferrer's most impressive film role came in 1953 in "Lili. " He played a rippled carnival puppeteer with whom a French orphan (played by Leslie Caron) falls in love. He also won critical acclaim as Luis Bello in Robert Rossen's 1951...

In this article: Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, The Sun Also Rises, Lili, New York, El Greco, Princeton U, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Born to Be Bad

...(1953). He won critical acclaim as the crippled puppeteer with whom a French orphan (Leslie Caron) falls in love; and King Vidor's War and Peace (1956), in which he was Prince Andrei Bolkonsky to Audrey Hepburn's Natasha. But he...

In this article: Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Gregory Peck, Broadway, Lili Marleen, Hollywood, and The Brave Bulls

Assuming the French would dislike an English language interpretation of the Pagnol plays, Leslie Caron was hesitant to replace her, but she liked the script and accepted three weeks before principal photography began. Among the...

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