Lili with Leslie Caron: VHS Cover

    Lili Director: Charles Walters Cast: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor

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    • VHS Release Date: 12/21/1994
    • Original Release: 1953
    • Rating: Not Rated

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    Based on the story by Paul Gallico, Lili stars Leslie Caron as the title character, a 16-year-old waif who runs off to join a carnival. Embittered, crippled puppeteer Mel Ferrer treats Lili with contempt; only by speaking through his puppets is Ferrer able to express his genuine love for the girl. Before this happens, however, Caron must overcome her crush on magician Jean-Pierre Aumont, who is married to the contentious Zsa Zsa Gabor. Though not a musical (as was Carnival, the 1961 Broadway version of Lili), the film affords Leslie Caron the opportunity for a dream ballet, and also accommodates the lilting Bronislaw Kaper/Adolph Deutsch hit song "Hi Lili, Hi Lo." Legend has it that professional curmudgeon H.L. Mencken, who considered movies a waste of time and never bothered to see them, was persuaded to attend a showing of Lili--and loved every minute of it! Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    December 19, 2003: I LOVE this show, for its gentleness and naivete as well as its hopefullness. However, Lili does not 'run off' to join the carnival. Her father, her only family, dies. He has always told her to go to a certain town and find a certain man, if anything happened to him. She goes, but the baker is no longer there. The carnival, however, IS there, and the rest is history.