Leslie CaronFilmography

Born:: July 1, 1931 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The sort of performer for whom the term "gaminlike" was coined, Leslie Caron was prepared for a performing career by her American mother, a former dancer. Training from childhood at the Paris Conservatoire, Caron was 16 when she was selected to dance with the Ballet de Champs Elysses. After three...Read More

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Chris and Don: A Love Story

Actors: Don Bachardy, Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell, Jim Berg, James P. White

Synopsis: Guido Santi and Tina Mascara's documentary Chris and Don. A Love Story traces the romantic relationship between writer Christopher Isherwood and painter Don Bachardy. The filmmakers utilize interviews with Don himself, as well as personal documents belonging to Isherwood, in order to show how the Read More

6/13/08
Le Divorce

Actors: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Jean-Marc Barr, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Based on the 1997 National Book Award-nominated novel of the same name by Diane Johnson (co-writer of the script for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining), Le Divorce is a romantic comedy from director James Ivory. Revisiting the "Americans in France" theme that Ivory explored in 1998's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Read More

8/8/03
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

Actors: Stanley Tucci, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: On the short list of great cinema dancers, Gene Kelly led a multi-faceted career that included acting, directing, and choreography. This documentary, narrated by Stanley Tucci, offers a look at the man's driving work ethic and his rich talent that led to such memorable classics as Singin' in the Rain Read More

2002
Murder on the Orient Express

Synopsis: Previously filmed by director Sidney Lumet in 1974, Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express was updated from the 1930s to the early 21st century in this made-for-TV remake. To be sure, the ineffable, insufferable Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (here played by Alfred Molina Read More

2001
Chocolat

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina

Synopsis: The most tempting of all sweets becomes the key weapon in a battle of sensual pleasure versus disciplined self-denial in this comedy. In 1959, a mysterious woman named Vianne (Juliette Binoche) moves with her young daughter into a small French village, where much of the community's activities are Read More

12/15/00
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Actors: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Olympia Dukakis, Leslie Caron, Cleo Laine

Synopsis: A group of trailblazing female musicians try to take another shot at success in this musical comedy-drama produced for the premium cable network HBO. In the 1940s, the Blonde Bombshells were the finest all-female jazz band in the U.K., playing hot swing music that helped raise England's Read More

2000
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff

Actors: Gregory Peck, Mala Powers, John Berry, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: Michael Chekhov and George Shdanoff were Russian expatriates who came to Hollywood and became two of the best known and most influential acting coaches in the film industry; Chekhov was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in Spellbound, and as a teacher he and his associate Shdanoff helped Read More

1999
Danielle Steel's 'The Ring'

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Linda Lavin, Michael York, Jon Tenney, James B. Sikking

Synopsis: In this drama, a German woman treasures a ring, the one tie she has left to her life before WWII. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Musicals Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM

Synopsis: This is a documentary film about the work of a legendary producer of musicals. After winning his laurels in 1939 as the assistant producer of The Wizard of Oz, MGM set up a whole studio for Arthur Freed. He began his career as a singer/songwriter and as an actor, (he appeared with the Marx Brothers Read More

1996
Let It Be Me

Synopsis: Wanting to learn some dance moves in order to cut a mean rug with his beloved at their upcoming wedding, a young man finds nothing but trouble after he starts taking lessons from a gorgeous teacher. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Funny Bones

Actors: Oliver Platt, Lee Evans, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Caron, Jerry Lewis

Synopsis: Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) is a struggling stand-up comedian who has tried for years to get out from under the shadow of his father, George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis), himself a famous humorist. Tommy finally scores a showcase spot at a major resort in Las Vegas, but when opening night rolls around Read More

1995
Jean Renoir

Actors: Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Bogdanovich, Leslie Caron

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894-1979) had an extremely long career writing, directing, producing and acting in films, beginning in the silent era, right up until the time of his death, when most of his productions were influenced by the medium of television. He was one of the sons of the famous Read More

1993
Genius

Synopsis: Desmond Denton (Joe Gibbons) is a whacko psychiatrist who has invented a machine that enables him to practice giving himself "personality transplants" using his patients for the source material. When he adopts the personality of a terrorist client, the rest of the world had better watch out: he's Read More

1993
Damage

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: Adapted from Josephine Hart's spare novel by British screenwriter David Hare and French director Louis Malle, this brooding erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual relationship between an English politician and his son's lover. Stephen Flemming (Jeremy Irons), an up-and-coming member of Read More

12/9/92
Courage Mountain

Actors: Juliette Caton, Jan Rubes, Charlie Sheen, Leslie Caron, Yorgo Voyagis

Synopsis: With a story that seeks to continue the famous tale of Heidi, Courage Mountain focuses on the teenager (Juliette Caton), forced to leave her grandfather (Jan Rubes) to attend an Italian boarding school on the eve of World War I. The German army appropriates the school, and Heidi is forced to Read More

2/16/90
Fred Astaire Learn to Dance [Video Series]

Synopsis: A dance instruction series from the Fred Astaire Studios, with instructors Lee and Peggy Santos. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Guerriers Et Captives

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Federico Luppi, Leslie Caron, China Zorrilla

Synopsis: At the same time the last of the free Plains tribes in North America were being herded onto reservations, the Argentinians were similarly engaged on the plains Patagonia. In this drama, set in 1880, a colonel in the Argentine army has come to this remote region with his aristocratic French wife in Read More

1989
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

Synopsis: In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible. Read More

1988
Master of the Game

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Harry Hamlin, Ian Charleson, Cliff De Young, Fernando Allende

Synopsis:

Another of the many Sidney Sheldon novels given the TV-miniseries treatment in the 1970s and '80s, Master of the Game yielded a three-part, nine-hour extravaganza, with enough corporate and romantic intrigue to fill an entire television season. Covering nearly 100 years, the story (which Read More

1984
Dangerous Moves

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet exile Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who, since childhood, has dreamed of nothing but defeating Liebskind. Both men soon become obsessed with winning. Already suffering Read More

1984
Die Unerreichbare

Actors: Leslie Caron, Daniel Webb, Leslie Malton

Synopsis: Klaudia (Leslie Caron) once starred in movies and on the stage, but now she is wealthy enough to retire to her exclusive villa and live without the interference of the world, the press, and work demands. In order to keep her solitude inviolate, she never allows anyone into the villa except for Read More

1982
Imperativ

Actors: Robert Powell, Brigitte Fossey, Sigfrit Steiner, Matthias Habich, Leslie Caron

Synopsis: Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. What is missing is truth, specifically Read More

1982
Kontrakt

Actors: Leslie Caron, Maja Komorowska, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Magda Jaroszowna, Krzysztof Kolberger

Synopsis: Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father Read More

1980
Tous Vedettes

Actors: Leslie Caron, Robert Webber, Kitty Kortes-Lynch, Daniel Ceccaldi, Remi Laurent

Synopsis: Students of the Paris music conservatory work at putting on an evening's entertainment in this musical comedy which has less of a lift than the dancers in some of the performances. While the students, of varying talent and origins, get their respective acts together, the mother (Leslie Caron) of Read More

1979
Goldengirl

Actors: Susan Anton, James Coburn, Curd Jürgens, Leslie Caron, Robert Culp

Synopsis: The very healthy looking Susan Anton is appropriately cast in Goldengirl. The daughter of a former Olympic athlete, Goldengirl (that's her name!) has been groomed for athletic competition since childhood. Her hero worship of her dad (Curt Jurgens) comes to an abrupt end when she finds out that he Read More

1979
Valentino

Actors: Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane, Felicity Kendal

Synopsis: Rudolph Valentino, born in Italy in 1895 as Alfonzo Raffaele Pierre Philibert Guglielmi, emigrated to the U.S. and became for a time the reigning male romantic lead of the silent-film era. He died in 1926, having led a short, troubled and tempestuous life which included several stints in prison. Read More

1977
The Man Who Loved Women

Actors: Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: When he suddenly dies and is buried, the late Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), an aeronautical engineer from Montpelier, receives funeral visitation from hundreds of women. Little wonder: in life, Morane simply couldn't keep his mind off of women -- one glance at a well-turned ankle and he was Read More

1977
Serail

Actors: Leslie Caron, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: Eric (Corin Redgrave) is a novelist whose imagination is unusually powerful. While exploring a run-down mansion in the French countryside, looking for sites for his stories, he meets a girl dressed in clothes from another time. Returning to the site, he encounters a modern woman who says he Read More

1976
QB VII

Actors: Leslie Caron, Ben Gazzara, John Gielgud, Juliet Mills, Lee Remick, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: This made-for-TV adaptation of the Leon Uris epic stars Anthony Hopkins as a Polish doctor accused by an American writer (Ben Gazarra) of assisting the Nazis with medical experiments. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The Contract

1973
Carola

Actors: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer

Synopsis: Norman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking place backstage at a theatrical performance in Nazi-occupied France, Carola is a tale of passion and intrigue that involves a beautiful stage actress and her emotional and psychological struggles over a Read More

1973
Nicole

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman learns the truth of the old saw, "money cannot by happiness." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Chandler

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, a private investigator falls for the former mistress of a racketeer who is slated to be a witness for the state. He is supposed to be quietly guarding her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Madron

Actors: Richard Boone, Leslie Caron, Chaim Banai, Paul L. Smith, Aharon Ipalé

Synopsis: Sister Mary (Leslie Caron) is a nun who enlists the help of Madron (Richard Boone) after she is the only survivor of an Apache massacre. A trio of lecherous bandits try to force themselves on the nun, and Madron shoots two of them to death. The third is made to swear allegiance to Sister Mary in Read More

1970
Jeux D'Adultes

Actors: Leslie Caron, Nino Manfredi, Claudine Auger, Ugo Tognazzi

1968
Il Padre Di Famiglia

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Leslie Caron, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Head of the Family (IL Padre de Famiglia) is a sparse seriocomic effort directed and co-written by Italian documentary filmmaker Nanni Loy. When his wife Leslie Caron announces she is pregnant, Nino Manfredi is at first overjoyed. His delight dwindles into quiet desperation as his little family Read More

9/29/67
Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

1966
A Very Special Favor

Actors: Rock Hudson, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Walter Slezak, Dick Shawn

Synopsis: A Very Special Favor stars Rock Hudson as a notorious romeo and Leslie Caron as a prudish psychiatrist. At the urging of Caron's lawyer father Charles Boyer, Hudson begins a seduction campaign. Caron resents this intrusion in her private affairs and builds up a wall of resistance against the Read More

1965
Promise Her Anything

Actors: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Keenan Wynn, Hermione Gingold

Synopsis: A woman has to choose between the rich man she wants and the bohemian type who loves her in this comedy. Michele O'Brien (Leslie Caron) is a young widow raising a baby in Greenwich Village. She's decided that her child needs a father, and she determines that her best bet as a prospective mate is Read More

1964
Father Goose

Actors: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good, Sharyl Locke

Synopsis: Deliberately casting his established screen image to the four winds, Cary Grant plays Walter Eckland, an unkempt, uncouth and unshaven beach bum in Father Goose. During World War II, Walter keeps busy relaying radio reports of Japanese air activity. But he's no hero, and in fact volunteered for Read More

1964
Four Fables of Love

Synopsis: Four Fables of Love is better known by its original Italian title: Bambole! A quartet of skilled Italian directors offer four home-grown romantic playlets, based on Boccacio's Tales of the Decameron. Dino Risi's "The Telephone Call" is a showcase for Virna Lisi as an errant bride. Luigi Comenici's Read More

1964
Les Quatre Verités

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Leslie Caron, Anna Karina, Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret

Synopsis: The four "truths" are in this instance, four different romantic or dramatic vignettes in a slightly uneven compilation film. All four segments are loosely related to fables by the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. In the first fable "Death and the Woodcutter" directed by Luis Berlanga Read More

1/31/63
Guns of Darkness

Actors: Leslie Caron, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu, Eleanor Summerfield, Derek Godfrey

Synopsis: This drama by director Anthony Asquith, a noted lynchpin in British cinematic history, may wear too many hats to be identified as either an adventure, a treatise on non-violence, a psychological study, or whatever. It is all of these things as it starts out in the midst of a revolution in a Read More

1962
The L-Shaped Room

Actors: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Anthony Booth, Brock Peters, Patricia Phoenix, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Avis Bunnage

Synopsis: Considered ultra-mature film fare in 1962, The L-Shaped Room stars Leslie Caron as a unmarried, pregnant French girl. Arranging for an abortion (illegal at that time), she takes up residence in a ramshackle British boarding house where most of the other residents are also outcasts of society. Many Read More

1962
Fanny

Actors: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz, Salvatore Baccaloni

Synopsis: Fanny was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the final chapter of Marcel Pagnol's "Marseilles Trilogy". Pagnol's original, titled Cesar, ends with protagonist Marius returning to the sea, leaving behind his lover Fanny and their son. Expanding upon the Read More

1961
The Battle of Austerlitz

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio De Sica, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol, Jean Marais

Synopsis: In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly legendary, 1927 historical drama Napoleon with this tale of Napoleon's life after his victories in Italy. The first half of Austerlitz delves into the private life of Napoleon Read More

6/17/60
The Subterraneans

Actors: Leslie Caron, George Peppard, Janice Rule, Roddy McDowall, Anne Seymour

Synopsis: Based rather loosely on a novel by Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans concerns a writer (played by George Peppard) who moves to San Francisco and falls in with a crowd of beatniks after falling in love with a French girl (Leslie Caron). The woman was black, not French, in Kerouac's novel, only the Read More

1960
The Man Who Understood Women

Actors: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: After making Man Who Understood Women and seeing that the result was an ill-realized, uneven combination of Hollywood satire and tear-jerking melodrama, star Henry Fonda did not make another film until almost three years later. The story centers on a Hollywood producer who becomes so obsessed with Read More

1959
The Doctor's Dilemma

Actors: Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim, Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: This film adaptation of Bernard Shaw's 1903 comedy/drama stars Dirk Bogarde, which might have led some impressionable viewers to assume that Doctor's Dilemma was merely the latest installment in Bogarde's "Doctor in the House" series. Bogarde plays a rakish artist who falls victim to consumption. Leslie Caron Read More

1958
Gigi

Actors: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young girl raised by two veteran Parisian courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of wealthy young Gaston (Louis Jourdan). When Gaston falls in love with Gigi and asks her to be his wife, Jeans is appalled: never has anyone in their family ever Read More

1958
Gaby

Actors: Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Cedric Hardwicke, Taina Elg, Margalo Gillmore

Synopsis: The third film version of Robert E. Sherwood's play Waterloo Bridge, Gaby is also the most antiseptic of the three. In the original 1931 film, Mae Clarke is cast as a British streetwalker who falls despearately and tragically in love with aristocratic military officer Douglass Montgomery. In the Read More

1956
The Glass Slipper

Actors: Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding, Sr., Keenan Wynn, Estelle Winwood, Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis: The Glass Slipper is a charming retelling of the Cinderella story, eminently suitable for both kids and adults. Leslie Caron plays Ella, the plain-Jane stepsister of beautiful but mean-spirited Birdena (Amanda Blake) and Serafina (Lisa Daniels). While stepmother Widow Sonder (Elsa Lanchester) Read More

1955
Daddy Long Legs

Actors: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark

Synopsis: This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron. Fragments of the basic plot remain: American millionaire Astaire is the unknown benefactor of French orphan girl Caron, financing the girl's Read More

1955
Lili

Actors: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis: Based on the story by Paul Gallico, Lili stars Leslie Caron as the title character, a 16-year-old waif who runs off to join a carnival. Embittered, crippled puppeteer Mel Ferrer treats Lili with contempt; only by speaking through his puppets is Ferrer able to express his genuine love for the girl. Read More

1953
The Story of Three Loves

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Farley Granger

Synopsis: This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous Lover," James Mason plays Charles Coudray, a well-known ballet director. When someone asks Coudray why he staged his masterpiece, "Astarte," only once, he tells the story Read More

1953
Glory Alley

Actors: Ralph Meeker, Leslie Caron, Kurt Kasznar, Gilbert Roland, John McIntire

Synopsis: Authentic New Orleans locations enhance the overall enjoyment of the prizefight melodrama Glory Alley. A mere few seconds before a championship bout, Socks Barbarrosa (Ralph Meeker) decides to throw in the towel so far as his boxing career is concerned. Socks' friends, family and handlers assume Read More

1952
An American in Paris

Actors: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, Nina Foch

Synopsis: Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving artists" colony. He is discovered by wealthy Milo Roberts (Nina Foch), who becomes Jerry's patroness in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Jerry plays hookey on this setup by Read More

1951
The Man with a Cloak

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron, Joe de Santis

Synopsis: Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so Read More

1951
Crazed

Synopsis: A hedonistic recluse seeking to control the lives of the few who faithfully serve her is plunged into a sea of madness as her paranoid suspicions tighten their grip on her sanity in this sensual drama starring Leslie Caron and The Dukes of Hazard's Catherine Bach. A voluptuous but reclusive widow Read More

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