Thank heaven : a memoir / Leslie Caron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caron, Leslie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caron, Leslie.

Actors--France--Biography.

Actors.

France.

Dancers--France--Biography.

Dancers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, 2009.

Summary:

Leslie Caron made her film debut with Gene Kelly in the classic MGM musical An American in Paris, created the role of Gigi, danced with Fred Astaire in Daddy Long Legs, and starred with Cary Grant in Father Goose. In Thank Heaven (an homage to the song Maurice Chevalier sings about her in Gigi) Caron shares her remarkable life story. From her childhood with her American mother and French father in occupied France to her early success as a young ballerina; to her meeting Gene Kelly and her years in Hollywood; to her love affairs (including a very funny and very public one with Warren Beatty) and motherhood; to her alcoholism and depression; and finally her recovery and continuing success in film and television, Caron offers an illuminating account of her career, filled with reminiscences of MGM at the end of its Golden Era.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Childhood

Paradise is called Goyetchéa

The war

First ballet classes

The phone call

Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer

The making of An American in Paris

This new life

Under contract

Renoir

Gigi

Family life

The prediction

Life with Warren

Learning independence

Marriage again

A new passion

Black days

the eighties

Changing track

Breakdown

Recovery

Latest adventures.

ISBN:

9780670021345

0670021342

OCLC:

318411507