68 years ago:
Daddy Long Legs (US)
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old residen, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits he...
1955-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/33218
#DaddyLongLegs #FredAstaire #LeslieCaron #TerryMoore #20thCenturyFox #ClassicFilm

Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in the Technicolor, CinemaScope 20th Century-Fox musical, “Daddy Long Legs” (1955).

This was the first Astaire picture I ever saw and the best of his 1950s efforts. The great music by Johnny Mercer is a big plus.

#OldHollywood #Musicals #FredAstaire #LeslieCaron #DaddyLongLegs

39 years ago:
Dangerous Moves (FR,LI,CH)
Original title: La Diagonale du fou
World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to t...
1984-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/46088
#DangerousMoves #MichelPiccoli #LivUllmann #LeslieCaron

70 years ago:
Lili (US)
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that ther...
1953-03-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43350
#Lili #LeslieCaron #MelFerrer #ZsaZsaGabor #MGM #Film

💖 Leslie Caron (1931 - ) French and American actress and dancer 💃
#LeslieCaron #oldhollywood