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Movie
Lili
Synopsis
Based on the story by Paul Gallico, Lili stars Leslie Caron as the title character, a 16-year-old waif who runs off to join a carnival. Embittered, crippled puppeteer Mel Ferrer treats Lili with contempt; only by speaking through his puppets is Ferrer able to express his genuine love for the girl. Before this happens, however, Caron must overcome her crush on magician Jean-Pierre Aumont, who is married to the contentious Zsa Zsa Gabor. Though not a musical (as was Carnival, the 1961 Broadway version of Lili), the film affords Leslie Caron the opportunity for a dream ballet, and also accommodates the lilting Bronislaw Kaper/Adolph Deutsch hit song "Hi Lili, Hi Lo". Legend has it that professional curmudgeon H.L. Mencken, who considered movies a waste of time and never bothered to see them, was persuaded to attend a showing of Lili--and loved every minute of it!, Enchanting musical with Leslie Caron as a French orphan who falls in love with a magician, only to find that he is already hitched.
Cast
- Leslie Caron
- Mel Ferrer
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Jean-Pierre Aumont
- Kurt Kasznar
- Amanda Blake
- Alex Gerry
- Ralph Dumke
- George Baxter
- Wilton Graff
- Eda Reiss Merin
- George Davis
- Mitchell Lewis
- Fred Walton
- Richard Grayson
- Reginald Simpson
- Dorothy Jarnac
- Edwin B. Willis
- Helen Deutsch
- Cedric Gibbons
- Paul Gallico
- Charles Walters
- Dorothy Jarnac
- Ferris Webster
- Robert Planck
- Paul Groesse
- William Tuttle
- Warren Newcombe
- Arthur Krams
- Mary Ann Nyberg