Leslie Caron was a ballet dancer when Gene Kelly discovered her, and cast her to perform with him in the musical An American in Paris(1951), a role in which a pregnant Cyd Charisse was originally cast. This led to a MGM contract in films, The Glass Slipper (1955) and the drama Gaby (1956). She also performed in the musicals Lili (1953), with Mel Ferrer; Daddy Long Legs(1955), a musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of "Walston" in Massachusetts. It stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Fred Clark and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, loosely based on the novel Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco. It was one of Astaire's favorites, because the script is about the complications of a love affair between a young woman and a man thirty years her senior. Also she performed in the film, Gigi (1958) with Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.
FUN FACT:
When she said to Fred Astaire that she wanted to create her own costumes for Daddy Long Legs (1955), he said, "OK, but no feathers, please". Astaire remembered one of Ginger Rogers costumes in a dance scene in Top Hat (1935). Some ostrich feathers came loose from Ginger Rogers' gown and floated around Astaire's face.
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