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Friday Feb 5 | Examiner.com

Who's Your 'Daddy'? 'Daddy Long Legs' is Broadway's Best in the Bay Area

SF GLBT Arts Examiner rates this: Tender moment from "Daddy Long Legs" publicity photo TheatreWorks' world premiere production of "Daddy Long Legs" is everything you'd want from a Broadway musical without the airfare or hotel cost.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Musical Movies, Fred Astaire, Jazz

Tue Feb 02, 2010

Daily Express

Alan Titchmarsh: Wild things

LESLIE Caron, 78, starred alongside legends such as Maurice Chevalier and Gene Kelly during Hollywood's golden age of musicals.

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Related Topix: The L-Shaped Room, Drama Movies, Cary Grant

Sat Jan 30, 2010

EDGEsanfrancisco.com Entertainment Feed

Gamer

The story told in Daddy Long Legs has certainly been an enduring one, for reasons that range from the frivolous to the Freudian.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Musical Movies, Mary Pickford, Fred Astaire, Jazz

Fri Jan 29, 2010

EDGEsanfrancisco.com Entertainment Feed

Daddy Long Legs

MOVIES Josh Duhamel's Roman holiday In the new romantic comedy When in Rome Josh Duhamel plays a New Yorker smitten by Kristen Bell while in Rome.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Musical Movies, When in Rome, Mary Pickford, Fred Astaire, Jazz

Mon Jan 25, 2010

San Jose Mercury News

'Daddy Long Legs' composer sees tale of a spunky orphan's journey...

Director John Caird and composer Paul Gordon on the set of Daddy Long Legs, which will make its world premiere at TheatreWorks.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Musical Movies, Fred Astaire, Jazz, Mountain View, CA, Theater, Arts, Science / Technology, Entertainment

Sat Jan 16, 2010

SF Gate

TheatreWorks turns page for 'Daddy Long Legs'

He's Fred Astaire in movie fans' minds, a suave, emotionally diffident businessman who spots a French teenager on a trip, anonymously underwrites her college education in America, ignores her, then falls in love with her.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Musical Movies, Fred Astaire, Jazz, Arts, Ballet

Tue Jan 12, 2010

DigitallyOBSESSED.com

GIGI

Studio: Warner Home Video Year: 1958 Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans Director: Vincente Minnelli Release Date: March 31, 2009 Rating: G for Run Time: 01h:55m:28s Genre : musical 'Profession: Lover and collector of beautiful things.' - Honore Lachaille After going my ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Gigi, Musical Movies, Horror Movies, Swamp Thing, Science Fiction Movies, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Eva Gabor

Sun Jan 10, 2010

Buffalo News

Never outgrowing the role of troubled little French girl

It is not shocking when Leslie Caron recounts her lover Warren Beatty's demand that she wake up and admire him.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Gigi, Comedy Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Musical Movies, Lili

Sat Dec 26, 2009

The Independent

Leslie Caron: Gigi comes of age

In her new film, Leslie Caron plays a starchy French matriarch but, in real life, she's always been drawn to outsiders.

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Related Topix: Gigi, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Maurice Chevalier

Sun Dec 20, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: 'Thank Heaven: A Memoir' by Leslie Caron

In the glorious 1958 MGM musical 'Gigi,' a brash little French girl mocks the world of courtesan Paris by singing 'I don't understand the Parisians.' When actress Leslie Caron delivered those lyrical lines in the film, she was in real life just beginning to understand their merit.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Musical Movies, Gigi, Valentino, Biography Movies, France, World News, Health, Depression, Entertainment

Fri Dec 11, 2009

Philly.com

Social Circuit, Dec. 9, 2009

Norman and Suzanne Cohn hosted a cocktail reception Nov. 20 for 80 guests at their penthouse apartment on the 45th floor of the St.

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Related Topix: Gigi, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Philadelphia, PA

Wed Dec 09, 2009

SFGate

Leslie Caron finds catharsis in autobiography

Leslie Caron says she got rid of the "dead wood" writing her autobiography, "Thank Heaven." "I must say, writing this book, it is a new world for me," the lithe 78-year-old film star reports.

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Related Topix: Gigi, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Drama Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Lili, Depression, Health, Los Angeles, CA

Tue Dec 08, 2009

CBS 2 - KCAL 9

Leslie Caron Receives Walk of Fame Star

Academy Award-nominated actress Leslie Caron received the 2,394th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, honoring her work in such MGM musicals as "An American in Paris," "Lili" and "Gigi," and the drama "The L-Shaped Room." Jack Larsen, best known for his portrayal of Jimmy Olson in the 1951-57 syndicated television series "The Adventures of ...

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Related Topix: Gigi, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Lili, Drama Movies, The L-Shaped Room, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Emmy Awards

Sat Dec 05, 2009

National Public Radio

Gigi Star Caron 'Thanks Heaven' For Younger Days

Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approx. 12:00 p.m. ET Leslie Caron was an 18-year-old ballet student living in post-war Paris when Gene Kelly cast her to play a wide-eyed young beauty he meets in post-war Paris in the film An American in Paris .

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Related Topix: Gigi, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Drama Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs

Fri Dec 04, 2009

Philly.com

Leslie Caron reads today at Free Library

On screen, Leslie Caron dazzled as Lise, Lili, Gaby, Gigi, and Fanny - and that was just her first decade in film.

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Related Topix: Lili, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Gigi, The L-Shaped Room, Comedy Movies, Fanny, Philadelphia, PA, Movies, Entertainment

Wed Dec 02, 2009

ContactMusic.com

Gigi - Caron to Be Honoured with a Star

GIGI star LESLIE CARON is to be honoured with the 2,394th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Related Topix: Gigi, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television

Tue Dec 01, 2009

WNYC-AM New York

From the Courts to Cooking for Christmas

New Yorker staff writer and CNN senior analyst Jeffrey Toobin discusses the controversy surrounding the upcoming trial of self-described 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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Related Topix: Grafton, NY, Recipes, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Musical Movies, Gigi

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Playbill

Jackson, Feinstein, Caron, Egan and More to Make Barnes and Noble Appearances

Michael Feinstein and Cheyenne Jackson are among the celebrities who will appear at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes and Noble in December.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Gigi

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Paging Through: Movie-star biographies

Leslie Caron's memoir provides remembrances of such films as "An American in Paris" and "Gigi." Zap2it.com Leslie Caron's memoir provides remembrances of such films as "An American in Paris" and "Gigi." In the "Mad Men" era, they were the pinnacles of sophisticated pin-upry: grown-up, smart and sexy.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Gigi, Musical Movies, Drama Movies, The Country Girl, Grace Kelly, Entertainment

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

What I see in the mirror: Leslie Caron

I see a woman who has aged very well. I'm 78. There are a few wrinkles, a few sags, but very sparkly eyes and a tendency to giggle and smile a lot.

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Related Topix: The Subterraneans, Drama Movies, Medicine, Plastic Surgery

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