Word: lili
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glass Slipper (M-G-M), Hollywood feels about as comfortable with Leslie Caron as a truck driver does with a beret-whatever it is, it's not normal. Everybody loved her in Lili (TIME, March 9' . 1953)) but what was it everybody loved? Was she pretty? Not by the usual U.S. standards. Could she act? In Lili it was hard to tell whether she was acting, or just doing what came naturally. "She's gamine," the critics said. The producers asked their wives what that meant, and decided that, as usual, the critics were wrong. A studio...
...Glass Slipper breathes, as Lili did, the atmosphere of a latter-day fairy tale. It is, in fact, the Cinderella story rewritten with the sort of sophistication best confined to the perfume ads. The prince (Michael Wilding) no longer loves his lass just because she is beautiful. He admires her "great agonized . . . rebellious eyes." The glass slipper is now made of "the finest Venetian glass." And the fairy godmother (Estelle Winwood) is a queer old dear who wanders around saying "window sill" because it sounds so nice...
...Married. Lili St. Cyr (real name: Marie van Schaack), 36, blonde stripteaser; and Ted Jordan, 28, Hollywood and Broadway bit actor (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial); she for the fifth time, he for the third; in Las Vegas...
Married. Audrey Hepburn, 25, Oscar-winning actress (Roman Holiday); and Mel Ferrer, 37, cinemactor (Lili); she for the first time, he for the fourth; near Lake Lucerne, Switzerland (see PEOPLE...
Divorced. By George A. Hormel II, 25, heir to the Hormel meat-packing fortune (Spam) founded by his grandfather: Leslie Caron, 23, French-born Hollywood dancer (Lili); after 30 months of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...