#gif: leslie caron

[ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos]

#Lili #Leslie Caron #gif

[atomic-chronoscaph]

TGIF

#leslie caron gif #an american in paris gif #tgif gif #50s movies #50s musicals #lise bouvier #dance number #friday #1950s #1951 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[gifsfrommydvds]

@giftober 2023 | Day 17: Mirrors

#leslie caron #gigi #giftober2023 #gfmd gif #cat #mirror

[contac]

#daddy long legs #fred astaire #leslie caron #wgn #chicago #interstitial #bumper #vhs #gif #logo #shiny #1987

[byneddiedingo]

Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963)

Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Ned Glass, Dominique Minot, Jacques Marin. Screenplay: Peter Stone, Marc Behm. Cinematography: Charles Lang. Art direction: Jean d'Eaubonne. Film editing: Jim Clark. Music: Henry Mancini. Charade was dismissed in its day as a pleasant but derivative entertainment, with touches of Hitchcock and a bit of James Bond in the mix, a film that would be nothing without its star teaming of Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. It would also inspire other star-teamed romantic adventures with one-word titles, like Warren Beatty and Susannah York in Kaleidoscope (Jack Smight, 1966) and Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine in Gambit (Ronald Neame, 1966), and Charade's director, Stanley Donen, would even repeat the formula with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren in Arabesque (1966). But Charade has survived today as a classic when the others have mostly been forgotten. The star teaming has a lot to do with it, of course: Who doesn't want to see the two most charming people in the world together? Owing to Grant's genetic gift for looking much younger than he was, even the 25-year age difference between Grant and Hepburn only slightly tests the limits of what one can accept in a romantic pairing.* But the film also makes sly references to the difference in their ages, and wisely makes Hepburn's character into the more active one in initiating a relationship. Charade also has an exceptionally witty screenplay, with Peter Stone largely responsible for the final script from the story he and Mark Behm had been unable to sell to the studios until they turned it into a novel that was serialized in Redbook magazine. It has a near-perfect supporting cast, including three actors at turning points in their careers: Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy. All of them would move out of television and into the movies after Charade, and all three would win Oscars for their work. And in  Donen it had a director whose lightness of touch had been honed in MGM musicals, including the greatest of them all, Singin' in the Rain (1952).

*Compare, for example, the similar age gap between James Stewart and Kim Novak in Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958). After that film, Stewart gave up playing romantic leads. Grant made much the same choice: Charade was his antepenultimate film: Although he would make one more, Father Goose (Ralph Nelson, 1964), that paired him with a younger actress, Leslie Caron, in his final film, Walk, Don't Run (Charles Walters, 1966), he was the older man who serves as matchmaker to young lovers -- a role that was based on the part played by Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier (George Stevens, 1943).

gifs from ferrisbuellers

#Charade #Stanley Donen #Audrey Hepburn #Cary Grant

[marciabrady]

LESLIE CARON viewed the character of Cinderella as a rebel and was particularly inspired by Marlon Brando’s performance as Terry Malloy. She designed this cropped haircut herself, to the chagrin of MGM executives, and came up with the backstory of why her character’s hair was this short and seemingly cut by kitchen shears in THE GLASS SLIPPER (1955)

#the glass slipper #filmedit #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmedit #filmgifs #cinderellaedit #bbelcher #userstream #chewieblog #ritahay #classicfilmsource #classicfilmblr #cinemapix #classicfilmcentral #tvandfilm #gif #gif: the glass slipper #gif: leslie caron #gif: estelle winwood

[theroseinthedarkness]

Costumes from Gigi 1958 (dir. Vincente Minnelli)

🎀Costume Design by Cecil Beaton 🎀

#perioddramaedit #filmedit #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmblr #filmgifs #leslie caron #gigi 1958 #mygifs #gifs: costumes

[freddie-my-love]

Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in Daddy Long Legs, 1955

#fred astaire #leslie caron #romantic #kiss #old hollywood #daddy long legs #1955 #50s #movies #my gifs

[oldhollywoodfilms]

Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron kiss in the shadow of Notre Dame Cathedral in An American in Paris (1951). The studio recreation of the Parisian landmark is visible in the upper right corner of the GIF.

You can follow this link to a video of the entire scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxGgY9GFhN4

#an american in paris #gene kelly #leslie caron #notre dame cathedral #paris #dance #musicals #classic movies #classic movie stars #old hollywood #gif

[aintthatakick]

#leslie caron #ralph meeker #glory alley #1952 #**myedits:gif** #**lesliecaron #**ralphmeeker #**gloryalley #1950s #gif warning

[filmandtellygifs]

An American In Paris (1951)

#an american in paris #gif #gene kelly #leslie caron #film #movie #1951 #trailer #musical

[ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos]

#Lili #Leslie Caron #gif

[mostlydaydreaming]

Leslie Caron on working with Gene Kelly in An American in Paris (1951)

He called me “Lester the pester”

He was very charming, very respectful.

Gene was my guide.

Gene was like big brother.

S’Wonderful: The Making of An American in Paris

#gene kelly #leslie caron #my gifs #an american in paris #my video #lovely story💕

[covergirlsanddancingcavaliers]

Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron in An American in Paris (1951)

#gene kelly #leslie caron #gif #an american in paris #gif set #gifs #dancing #1950s movies #1950s #old hollywood

[shinigabi-tan]

Somebody gone... somebody expected. But if you're waiting, don't wait too long because when one is as young as you are, one doesn't have to wait for anyone. They'll find you wherever you are. 

The Story of Three Loves (1953) Dir. Vincente Minelli and Gottfried Reinhardt.

#the story of three loves #vincente minnelli #gottfried reinhardt #moira shearer #james mason #leslie caron #farley granger #ricky nelson #ethel barrymore #pier angeli #kirk douglas #1950s #films #gifs by me

[crushondonald]

Remembering Gene Kelly on his birthday 🌹

Born on August 23, 1912 as Eugene Curran Kelly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Died on February 2, 1996 in Beverly Hills/L.A., California

“My full name is Eugene Curran Kelly. Curran was my mother’s family. Her father came from County Clare. And so I’m Irish on both sides.”

"Writing a scene. Directing a show. Those were more fun. Once a dance is made up and I have to perform it, that's the least interesting part.”

"Dancing is either learning or teaching. If you're a dancer, you're learning. If you're a choreographer, you're teaching."

“In film, a dancer should always be shot from head to toe, because that way you can see the whole body and that is the art of dancing. Nowadays they shoot the nose. Left nostril. Right nostril. Hand. Foot. Bust. Derrière. The film prevents you from determining who is a good dancer and who is not. When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.” (1985)

“You’re right about the Irish dancers. That’s a phenomenon of the time. The Irish really dominated popular dance in twentieth century America, no doubt about it. I think it came from the fact that the dancing in Ireland for centuries has been clog dancing and reels and these dances certainly influenced the American people in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries so that it actually became part of American tap dancing.”

Lá Breithe Shona dhuit A mhuirnín!  ~  Happy Birthday Darling 💋

Thank you for everything ... may the blessings of light be upon your soul ✨!

#Gene Kelly #Happy Birthday darling 💋! #.... love and miss you! #Judy Garland #Frank Sinatra #Donald O'Connor #Leslie Caron #Fred Astaire #For Me and My Gal #Anchors Aweigh #Singin' In The Rain #An American in Paris #It's Always Fair Weather #Ziegfeld Follies #Cover Girl #The Pontiac Star Parade #my edits #my gifs #it was not easy ... finally I decided for the sequences I adore most! #Gene you were a genius :)!!!!!!!