Thank Heaven: A Memoir
by:
Leslie Caron (author)
Caron provides countless dishy details about her exploits which are sure to entertain film buffs, Caron fans and aspiring actors. -Booklist While still a teenager, Leslie Caron-the daughter of an American mother and French father-was literally plucked from the Ballets des Champs- Elysées to star...
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Caron provides countless dishy details about her exploits which are sure to entertain film buffs, Caron fans and aspiring actors. -Booklist While still a teenager, Leslie Caron-the daughter of an American mother and French father-was literally plucked from the Ballets des Champs- Elysées to star opposite Gene Kelly in An American in Paris, and went on to become an MGM star and one of the most cherished and admired actresses of our time.Wry, poignant, and unguardedly frank, Thank Heaven (an homage to "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," the song Maurice Chevalier sings about her in Gigi) recounts Caron's unorthodox childhood in France, her string of Hollywood successes and leading men, her very public affair with Warren Beatty, and her later triumph over depression and alcoholism. Both witty and deeply moving, Caron's unsentimental memoir will captivate anyone who loves classic American movies.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670021345 (0670021342)
Publish date: November 25th 2009
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
I found this memoir quite interesting, the more so since Caron had an international career rather than merely a Hollywood one. Like so many people whose name is made in Hollywood (and particularly women, unfortunately), her greatest celebrity came very early in her life, and from her thirties onward...