Word: caron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American in Paris. A buoyant, imaginative musical, as hard to resist as its George Gershwin score; with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron (TIME...
...movie's boy-meets-girl story is simple, lighthearted and peopled with thoroughly likable characters. An ex-G.I. painter (Gene Kelly), happily roughing it on the Left Bank, picks up a charming shopgirl (Leslie Caron). They fall in love. He holds off a pleasantly wolf-girlish American heiress (Nina Foch) who is determinedly sponsoring him. But the shopgirl feels a stronger commitment to the devoted music-hall idol (Georges Guetary) who sheltered her through a wartime childhood. As it must for all lovers, especially in Paris, love finds...
...American in Paris is a product of many talents and a triumph of teamwork. Actress Caron, a young (19) French ballet dancer discovered by Kelly, combines dancing skill with a fetching simplicity and the plump-cheeked freshness of a Renoir model. The script, by Alan Jay Lerner, bounces wittily along under the direction of Vincente Minnelli. The Gershwin score brims with a dozen of his works, some heard only in snatches, some unfamiliar, ranging from such standards as 'S Wonderful and Embraceable You to Piano Concerto in F, played by Gershwin's leading interpreter, Pianist Oscar Levant...
Married. George A. Hormel II, 23, heir to the Hormel meat-packing fortune ("Spam") founded by his grandfather; and Leslie Caron, 18, French-born ballet dancer (An American in Paris); in Las Vegas...
Another A. V. C. member, Herbert Caron 4G, told the CRIMSON yesterday that several Harvard Way veterans, assigned to "permanent"! type quarters such as Holden Green, have complained to the A. V. C. that they would now have to pay higher rents for smaller apartments...