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Hace 1 día · Austerlitz (1960) 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 Bonaparte (Pierre Mondy), the ...
Hace 3 días · In 1928, George Gershwin wrote a symphonic poem for orchestra he called “An American in Paris,” upon which was based a 1951 film starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. The following story is about two earlier Americans in Paris, or more accurately, in Bourges, France, about one hundred fifty miles south of Paris.
Hace 1 día · Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team up in the 1957 musical romantic comedy Funny Face, in which fashion photographer Dick Avery ( Astaire) meets the shy, but beautiful, Jo Stockton ( Hepburn) and convinces her to go Paris with him to become a model. Filled with catchy tunes, classic glitz and the glamour that defines an Audrey Hepburn movie ...
Hace 1 día · Before becoming Jo Stockton, Hepburn was offered the lead role of Gigi in the 1958 film of the same name, but she turned it down to do Funny Face. In return, Leslie Caron went on to star in Gigi.
Hace 2 días · The roots of the seldom-performed Daddy Long Legs stretch back more than a century to a novel of the same name penned by Jean Webster in 1912.. Two years later, Webster adapted her epistolary novel in a non-musical stage play. In 1955, Hollywood again adapted Webster’s tale, this time converting it into a dance vehicle for Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron with music and lyrics by famed composer ...
Hace 4 días · Set to Gershwin’s jazzy melodies, the musical is inspired by the 1951 film of the same name starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. The ballet excerpt was Wheeldon’s take on one of the most memorable scenes from the film – an extended sequence in which the two central characters dance through Paris.
Hace 3 días · Leslie Claire Margaret Caron, mais conhecida como Leslie Caron.Ela nasceu em 1º de julho de 1931 em Paris, França.É uma atriz franco-americana, mais reconhec...
