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  • Caron to be honoured with a star - 1 December 2009
    -Gigi star Leslie Caron is to be honoured with the 2,394th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.- -The French movie legend will unveil the tribute next week (08Dec09). Her piece of pavement sits between the stars of her mentor Gene Kelly and Gigi co-star Louis Jordan.-

Leslie Caron - what members say


  • An American In Paris
  • An American In Paris review by laneyb from Rochester, Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars An American in Paris 20 August 2010
    ...is just out of this world, he makes it all look so effortless. Put the talented Leslie Caron along side him, add the wonderful music from George Gershwin, and we have a dan...   Read customer review
  • Darling
  • Darling review by A customer from leamington
    Rated - 3.0 stars Two for one 19 October 2004
    ...The L-Shaped Room Leslie Caron plays a French girl who comes to London for an abortion. She takes up lodgings in a run down London house peopled by a host of colourful cha...   Read customer review
  • Funny Bones
  • Funny Bones review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars A great film about comedians, and the best ever about Blackpool 27 October 2004
    ...ogether both famous - if too little seen - faces such as Lewis, Oliver Reed and Leslie Caron, and a host of variety and circus stars who have rarely been seen on screen bef...   Read customer review

Leslie Caron - filmography


  • Chocolat - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Hugh O'Conor,  Lena Olin
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    In a small old-fashioned French town, single-mother Vianne (Juliette Binoche) arrives with her six-year-old daughter, and opens up a chocolate shop. Vianne creates some mouth-watering sweets which inspire the usually dull villagers to indulge their temptations and experience some true happiness. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 414 members
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  • Chocolat on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Hugh O'Conor,  Lena Olin
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    When Vianne, a mysterious stranger, and her child arrive in a tranquil French town in the winter of 1959, nobody could have imagined the impact that she and her spirited daughter would have on this community stubbornly rooted in tradition. Within days, Vianne opens a very unusual chocolate shop, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 41,720 members
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  • Funny Bones on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Jerry Lewis,  Oliver Reed,  Lee Evans
    Director: Peter Chelsom
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 908 members
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  • Damage (1992)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Jeremy Irons,  Ian Bannen
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2,047 members
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  • Man Who Lived At The Ritz (1988)
    Starring: David McCallum,  Leslie Caron,  Sophie Barjac
    Director: Desmond Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A three and a half hour mini series set in Paris during the Nazi occupation, about an American art student living at the Ritz Hotel. He becomes trapped by the Nazi occupation. As a result he has two choices. Either help his friends fight against the Nazi regime, and lose his accommodation at the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 51 members
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  • Dangerous Moves (1984)
    Starring: Michel Piccoli,  Michel Piccoli,  Alexandre Arbatt
    Director: Richard Dembo
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two very different men compete in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew and chess master for the past 12-years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 8 members
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  • Valentino on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Anton Diffring,  Michelle Phillips,  John Justin
    Director: Ken Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Controversial British director Ken Russell's film starring ballet-dancer-turned actor Rudolf Nureyev as Rudolf Valentino, the adored silent screen actor of the early Hollywood age. The film begins at his funeral in 1926 and, using flashbacks, backtracks to his glory-days when the former ballroom ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 474 members
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  • Is Paris Burning? on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Jean-Pierre Cassel,  Kirk Douglas,  Alain Delon
    Director: Rene Clement
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Star-heavy WWII epic set in the closing days of the Nazis' rule of Paris. The allied advance is almost upon the capital of France. The French Resistance struggles to take back its city fighting tooth and nail to avoid the Nazis' clear intention of torching the city upon exit. Realistically ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 468 members
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  • Darling on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Pat Phoenix,  Tom Bell
    Director: Bryan Forbes,  John Schlesinger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Diana Scott (Julie Christie in an Oscar winning performance) is an ambitious model determined to make it to the top. Using her sexuality, she manipulates powerful men, but in so doing becomes a prisoner of the jet-setting lifestyle she once yearned for. Dirk Bogarde co-stars as Diana's long-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,385 members
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  • Father Goose on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Leslie Caron
    Director: Ralph Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 935 members
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  • The L-Shaped Room on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Pat Phoenix,  Tom Bell,  Leslie Caron
    Director: Bryan Forbes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Leslie Caron stars as Jane, a young woman abandoned by the father of her unborn child. She contemplates an abortion after taking refuge in a boarding house full of strange misfits. But after meeting and falling for Tom, a struggling writer who lives above her, she begins to settle into her new ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 405 members
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  • Fanny (1961)
    Starring: Leslie Caron,  Maurice Chevalier,  Charles Boyer
    Director: Joshua Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 10 members
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  • Austerlitz (1960)
    Starring: Vittorio De Sica,  Martine Carol,  Jack Palance
    Director: Abel Gance
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Lavish French production depicting Napoleon's greatest victory: his defeat of the Russians at the Battle of Austerlitz. Pierre Mondy, Claudia Cardinale and Orson Welles star.
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 10 members
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  • Gigi on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Isabel J,  Louis Jourdan,  Maurice Chevalier
    Director: Vincente Minnelli
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Vincente Minnelli and producer Arthur Freed capped the success of their earlier hits 'Meet Me in St Louis' and 'An American in Paris' with this lavish musical adaptation of Colette's famous novel. Gigi (Leslie Caron), an innocent French girl, finds herself being trained as a courtesan so ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,800 members
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  • Daddy Longlegs (1955)
    Starring: Terry Moore,  Thelma Ritter,  Fred Clark
    Director: Jean Negulesco
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A young orphaned French girl is brought to America to go to a finishing school. She falls in love with her mysterious benefactor, who only identifies himself at her school summer ball. Musical remake of a 1931 film.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 267 members
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  • An American In Paris on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Leslie Caron,  Oscar Levant
    Director: Vincente Minnelli
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    American G.I. Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become a painter. There he falls in love with Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron), only to discover that she is engaged to his friend Henri Baurel (Georges Guetary). With music and songs by George and Ira Gershwin, including 'I Got ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,091 members
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Leslie Caron facts

5 most recent films

Chocolat - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Last Of The Blonde Bombshells - 3.5 stars
Chocolat - 3.5 stars
Funny Bones - 3.5 stars
Damage - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The L-Shaped Room - 4.0 stars
Father Goose - 4.0 stars
Chocolat - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Last Of The Blonde Bombshells - 3.5 stars
Chocolat - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Subterraneans - 1.0 stars
Austerlitz - 2.0 stars
Dangerous Moves - 2.0 stars
Fanny - 2.5 stars
An American In Paris - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Judi Dench - 4 times - show films
Juliette Binoche - 4 times - show films
Hugh O'Conor - 3 times - show films
Carrie-Anne Moss - 3 times - show films
John Wood - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Vincente Minnelli - 5 times - show films
Lasse Hallstrom - 4 times - show films
Bryan Forbes - 2 times - show films
Ralph Nelson - 1 times - show films
Jean Negulesco - 1 times - show films