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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
review by laneyb from Rochester, Kent
An American in Paris 20 August 2010
review by A customer from leamington
Two for one 19 October 2004
review by from London
A great film about comedians, and the best ever about Blackpool 27 October 2004
Leslie Caron - filmography
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Chocolat - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Hugh O'Conor, Lena Olin
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Certificate: 
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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 »
 
72%
from 414 members
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Last Of The Blonde Bombshells
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Ian Holm, Judi Dench
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
Certificate: 
Following the death of her husband, Elizabeth (Judi Dench) begins playing her tenor saxophone again, reminiscing about her time with swing band the Blonde Bombshells during Second World War. After a chance encounter with the band's only male member - cross-dressing drummer Patrick (Ian Holm) - ..read more »
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from 991 members
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Chocolat
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Hugh O'Conor, Lena Olin
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Certificate:
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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 »
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from 41,720 members
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Funny Bones
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Oliver Reed, Lee Evans
Director: Peter Chelsom
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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 »
65%
from 908 members
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Damage
(1992)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Jeremy Irons, Ian Bannen
Director: Louis Malle
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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 »
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
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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 »
39%
from 51 members
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Dangerous Moves
(1984)
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt
Director: Richard Dembo
Certificate: 
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.
40%
from 8 members
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Valentino
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Anton Diffring, Michelle Phillips, John Justin
Director: Ken Russell
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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 »
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from 474 members
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Is Paris Burning?
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Alain Delon
Director: Rene Clement
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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 »
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:
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 »
62%
from 2,385 members
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Father Goose
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron
Director: Ralph Nelson
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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.
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
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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 »
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from 405 members
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Fanny
(1961)
Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer
Director: Joshua Logan
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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 »
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from 10 members
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Austerlitz
(1960)
Starring: Vittorio De Sica, Martine Carol, Jack Palance
Director: Abel Gance
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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.
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from 10 members
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Gigi
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Isabel J, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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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 »
63%
from 2,800 members
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Daddy Longlegs
(1955)
Starring: Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark
Director: Jean Negulesco
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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.
64%
from 267 members
Currently unavailable
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An American In Paris
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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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 »
64%
from 4,091 members
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Leslie Caron facts
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...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...
