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Memoir
Viking Adult
December 2009
On Sale: November 25, 2009
Featuring: Leslie Caron
288 pages
ISBN: 0670021342
EAN: 9780670021345
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
One of the best-loved stars of classic American cinema
tells all in this wry, funny, and poignant
memoir
Leslie Caron is one of the most cherished
and admired international film stars of our time. She made
her film debut with Gene Kelly in the classic MGM musical
An American in Paris, created one of the most
enduring roles in American musicals as Gigi, danced
with Fred Astaire in Daddy Long Legs, and starred
with Cary Grant in Father Goose.
In Thank
Heaven (an homage to "Thank Heaven for Little Girls,"
the song Maurice Chevalier sings about her in Gigi)
Caron shares her remarkable life story. From her childhood
with her American mother and French father in occupied
France to her early success as a young ballerina; to her
meeting Gene Kelly and her years in Hollywood; to her love
affairs (including a very funny and very public one with
Warren Beatty) and motherhood; to her alcoholism and
depression; and finally her recovery and continuing success
in film and television, Caron offers an illuminating account
of her career.
Thank Heaven is filled with
reminiscences of MGM at the end of its Golden Era, of the
great stars with whom Caron worked, and of her own struggles
as an actress. This is a sharp, unsentimental, and moving
memoir for everyone who loves classic American movies.
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