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Overview

"Caron provides countless dishy details about her exploits which are sure to entertain film buffs, Caron fans and aspiring actors."
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While still a teenager, Leslie Caron-the daughter of an American mother and French father-was literally plucked from the Ballets des Champs- Elysées to star opposite Gene Kelly in An American in Paris, and went on to become an MGM star and one of the most cherished and admired actresses of our time.

Wry, poignant, and unguardedly frank, Thank Heaven (an homage to "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," the song Maurice Chevalier sings about her in Gigi) recounts Caron's unorthodox childhood in France, her string of Hollywood successes and leading men, her very public affair with Warren Beatty, and her later triumph over depression and alcoholism. Both witty and deeply moving, Caron's unsentimental memoir will captivate anyone who loves classic American movies.

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Caron went from Parisian ballerina to Hollywood movie star at 17, when Gene Kelly tapped her for a co-starring role in the 1951 hit An American in Paris. She became a star in the studio system of that era, and via her MGM contract shared billing with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant by day and socialized with Judy Garland and Lena Horne by night. It’s been a glamorous life, but, as Caron reveals, not without struggles. She grew up in occupied Paris, her father a French chemist, her American mother a former dancer. Caron never felt good enough for her parents: “The path to excellent was clearly indicated, and my insecurity became chronic.” Despite her success, she points to insecurity as the root of her decision to date or marry and divorce several controlling men, including meat-packing heir George Hormel II and actor Warren Beatty, with whom she had an affair in the 1960s. Caron provides countless dishy details about her exploits, which are sure to entertain film buffs, Caron fans and aspiring actors. Today, the 78-year-old two-time Academy Award nominee acts in the U.S. and Paris; in 2007, a role on Law and Order: SVU garnered a prime-time Emmy. Caron also runs an auberge, or inn, in France and, she writes, intends to avoid fading into the background. (Dec.)
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Best known for An American in Paris and Gigi, Caron has had a multifaceted career in dance, film, theater, and television, served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival, authored short stories, and became an innkeeper in Burgundy. Her book, much more memoir than straight autobiography, gives one the feeling of being in the room with her as she reminisces selectively. She covers her early life, living through World War II in occupied Paris, joining the Ballets des Champs Elysées, and working with choreographer Roland Petit. Opportunity knocked with An American in Paris, but the chapter on this is disappointingly brief. Caron was nominated for Oscars for Lili and The L-Shaped Room and won an Emmy in 2007 for a Law and Order performance. The sense of how fleeting fame and happiness are permeates the book. Married three times, she constantly reinvented herself in a variety of ways. VERDICT For those interested in Caron and her career or in general movie star biographies. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 8/09.]—Barbara Kundanis, Longmont P.L., CO

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780670021345
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 11/25/2009
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 1,143,274
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.05 (d)

Meet the Author

Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron has been nominated for two Academy Awards, for Lili and The L-Shaped Room, won an Emmy Award in 2007 for her role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and continues to act today, starring most recently in Chocolat and Le Divorce.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Author's Note xiii

1 Childhood 1

2 Paradise Is Called Goyetchéa 16

3 The War 23

4 First Ballet Classes 42

5 The Phone Call 54

6 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 60

7 The Making of An American in Paris 69

8 This New Life 77

9 Under Contract 89

10 Renoir 104

11 Gigi 118

12 Family Life 142

13 The Prediction 157

14 Life with Warren 172

15 Learning Independence 181

16 Marriage Again 188

17 A New Passion 207

18 Black Days-the Eighties 225

19 Changing Track 239

20 Breakdown 254

21 Recovery 258

22 Latest Adventures 269

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