livingLegend Leslie Caron was a darling of the Hollywood musical aged just 19. Fifty-two years later she’s still in demand - and starring in the latest Merchant Ivory film. Interview by James Mottram for Scotland on sunday
AT 72, you still sense Leslie Caron could show Catherine Zeta Jones and Nicole Kidman a step or two. She is, of course, far too graceful, genteel and - let’s face it - French to be so vulgar as to do so. But Caron, like Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse before her, was dancing her way into the hearts of millions years before these young pretenders ever put on top hat and tails. Plucked from obscurity at 19 to star opposite Gene Kelly in An American In Paris, Caron became a darling of the Hollywood musical, despite only ever making five of them.
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