Will Leslie Caron be awarded an Honorary Oscar?l

She was fabulous in her SUV episode, she was awarded an Emmy.

I certainly hope they honor Leslie. She's so talented.

Several nominations? Try two.

She's been part of two movies that won Best Picture: An American in Paris and Gigi.

Four-foot high Tiny talent from two-thirds of a century ago.

I suggest we should wait until she's Luise Rainer's age and then Lady Gaga can carry her out on to the ghastly stage in a crib.

[quote] Hollywood's Golden Age

We are now experiencing Hollywood's Trash Age.

I'm sure Caron would prefer to stay away from the fist-fights, quota-ticking and garbage of the current Oscars

R6 She can accept it virtually the way Myrna Loy did.

Mia Farrow isn't old Hollywood, but she deserves one as well.

For what?

[quote] Mia Farrow …deserves

a cell in The St John Of God Psychiatric Centre.

Fred Astaire complained she ate too much and was fat. Big steak dinners while he kept to his chicken soup (and his 135 lb "dancing weight" - at 5'9"). I don't know what her height/weight were - just read that in his autobiography "Steps In Time" (title suggested to him by Noel Coward wink wink)

Off topic - but I just remembered his 1960s tv co-star Barrie Chase said he would have her over for dinner (I think they dated) and he would count out how many peanuts she could eat as an appetitzer (like 10 or 12 or so)

R11 Steak and a baked potato for every meal

She said, "Well, I was hungry!"

This was back when ballerinas, which she first was, were not expected to be emaciated. Some were quite chunky, in fact.

Those were the days...

R8 I agree but she'll never get one.

I suspect Hollywood hates Mia more than ever because of Ronan's involvement in the reporting that led the the #MeToo movement.

Hollywood may pretend they 'care' about abuse of power, etc but they don't and they'll be forever pissed at Mia.

She was lovely, wasn't she? I fell in love with her in Father Goose.

She played an annoying prissy bitch in that painful 'Father Goose'.

"In honor of her ability to converse convincingly with puppets..."

Is she romantically involved with Cary Grant in Father Goose? I remember hearing that he was reluctant to take any role where he was paired with a younger woman but the storyline of Father Goose had some sort of loophole for him.

When she formally disavows that hideous "pixie" cut, we will consider her for an honorary Oscar.

R4, and two more that were nominated for Best Picture: Fanny and Chocolat.

'Father Goose' was Cary Grant's second last movie and it's painful to watch.

The script was written by the person who wrote 'Charade' but that was clever and surreal but Father Goose is witless and overlong.

It's funny for those who alcoholism and aggravation is funny.

I absolutely adored Father Goose as a kid but I was kind of a basic bitch.

R23 'Father Goose' is all about Aggravation. Cary Grant plays an old drunk who wants to be left alone.

Aggravation Comedy is OK if it's done with wit such as in 'Fawlty Towers'. Aggravation Comedy can be really tedious as in some of Noel Coward such as in 'Present Laughter'.

Didn't Father Goose have a mindless ear wormy theme song (maybe even won an Oscar?) that was sung on every TV variety hour for years? Spacing on the title but it begins: "I've got me ten fine toes.....etc.....etc.....?

5'9"?? Bwahahahah!!!!!

Fred Astaire was 5'7" if he was an inch and that was only in his elevator tap shoes and a pair of thick lavender socks.

^ an irritating children's song. There's a similarly irritating children's song in 'South Pacific'.

Get in line

It was called Pass Me By and The King Family did a marvelous job with it!

[quote] Pass Me By

The old drunk hermit (played by Cary Grant) pleaded with the annoying prissy woman and her annoying prissy schoolgirls to Pass Him By.

R30. So did Miss Peggy Lee

My first trip to Paris in the 1990s and I was sitting my first morning at a lovely and typical outdoor cafe on the Champs-Elysees having an espresso and croissant and who strolled by?

Leslie Caron, wearing an elegant long woolen cape with a matching scarf. It couldn't have been a more appropriate welcome to the city.

LOL! I'm actually the poster who posted that on DL many years ago, r34. And it was all true!

Lol, R34, haven't heard that classic post for a while.

And if you really are the original poster for it, R35, then congrats, you are part of DL history.

Yes, it was really me and, of course, when I wrote it back then, it was simply intended sincerely and not as a joke. Love that it's remembered every several years or so when Ms Caron is mentioned here. I'd forget it myself otherwise, lol.

R37, its mentioned in many threads that have nothing to do with Ms. Caron, substituting whatever star or city is being discussed. It's become a DL meme.

Please — the humanitarian, witch hunt survivor, and interesting character actress Marsha Hunt needs to be at the top of the list!

Ahhhhhhhhhh, the French!!

No, R39, the delightful winner of the 1949 New York Tony, Martita Hunt needs to be at the top of the list!

She’ll never get an Oscar and I for one am glad. She doesn’t deserve it karmically and she doesn’t deserve it technically and she doesn’t deserve it just for continuing to plague the world with her presence.

If she writes enough checks she can still get an EGOT.

Years ago Leslie Caron left/divorced her husband for serial fucker Warren Beatty. And then Beatty dumped her. Ouch!!!

^ I'm imagining the pigmy-sized Caron bouncing up and down on the Beatty Phallus.

While singing "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo."

No Patricia Neal deserved the win. She initially was campaigned in the supporting category, but she won the nyfc for best actress and her studio took advantage of it and the fact that the category was considered very weak.

Who was nominated for best actress in 1964?

Patricia Neal. Hud.

Leslie Caron. The L-Shaped Room.

Shirley MacLaine. Irma La Douce.

Rachel Roberts. This Sporting Life.

Natalie Wood. Love with the Proper Stranger.

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She’ll take a slap and like it.

I'm surprised she was at Hall's service. She writes about him and his ilk at the National Theater being very into liberal, democratic. socialist causes but enjoying very expensive dinners, parties, houses and lifestyles. He went through most of her Hollywood money.

[quote] I'm surprised she was at Hall's service.

I'm surprised she married this foreigner from another genre. But I suppose he was rather cute then. He was almost as short as she was.

Judi Dench is a poison dwarf.

Janis Paige is also still with us at age 99!

R44 Wasn't that around the same time that Natalie Wood dumped her hubbie Robert Walker for Beatty as well when they were filming Splendor in the Grass?

She and Beatty weren’t fucking during Splendor in the Grass, and she didn’t leave Wagner for him.

[quote] She and Beatty weren’t fucking …

I know because I was looking through his bedroom window. Every night.

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R27, well you know google is never wrong and they've come up with this analysis (though I admit it's quite bizarre):

"Who was the better dancer, Fred or Gene (Kelly)?

A: Gene was a bit shorter (5'7″ to Fred's 5'9″) and more muscular and, therefore, he always seems bound to the ground. He had a greater desire than Fred to incorporate different styles of dancing into the mainstream musical, particularly ballet.

[the only think I remember from Fred's autobiography is that he was impressed that Gene could lift and throw his female partners around with such ease - uh, Fred was spindly but did manage some sort of lifts in "Carefree" where he lifts Ginger immediately up to a bunch of tables where she kicks upward, then he lets her down and lifts her up to another table, etc., iirc -- I doubt he ever lifted our steak-loving Leslie Caron]

WOW! That Peter Hall memorial service Daily Mail article at r49 with all those photos of every aging world famous Brit actor and director and Kim Cattrall is a DL thread in itself.

R60 You're right we've devoted at least six threads to the stars and performers who attended that funeral.

Maggie Smith looks so much younger and healthier out of her Dowager Grantham drag and wig.

Fred and Leslie's two big numbers from Daddy Long Legs-Slue Foot and Something's Got to Give-are pretty sensational. Though no stick she hardly looks like she's been going heavy on the steak and potato dinners. And he lifts her beautifully once with no seeming effort.

I was watching it with my mother and she exclaimed referring to Fred's age, 'They're not going to end up together?!!', and indeed they do.

The all-time most "MARY!" posting on any Datalounge thread ever, from four years ago:

[quote] My first trip to Paris in the 1990s and I was sitting my first morning at a lovely and typical outdoor cafe on the Champs-Elysees having an espresso and croissant and who strolled by?

[quote]Leslie Caron, wearing an elegant long woolen cape with a matching scarf. It couldn't have been a more appropriate welcome to the city.

R47 - you are correct - the performances by leading actresses was very weak that year.

Was Natalie Wood really worthy of a nomination or was she just filling in 5th place?

It was a worthy nomination, r66. One of her better performances.

[quote] or was she just filling in 5th place?

Or did she belong to the best booking agency?

Natalie Wood and Leslie Caron both were probably considered due at that point for an Oscar, Natalie especially considering she had racked up several nominations before and had been in the industry so long.

[quote] had been in the industry so long.

Just like an old horse.

Does anybody know if Leslie Caron's hair in Fanny was her real hair or just a wig? It was a departure from her usual pixie cut.

She stole my role!

She stole my role!

Never heard of her.

This movie never seems to be shown on TV.

Dirk was SO pretty!

I offered Leslie and Audrey my rolls, but they wouldn't touch them.

It's unfortunate that Natalie Wood didn't take a cue from her Oscar nomination for her uncharacteristic role in Love With a Proper Stranger which finally allowed her to play an intelligently written, realistic young woman in an honest, believable situation.

Instead, she went on to star in utterly frivolous Hollywood dreck like The Great Race, Inside Daisy Clover and Penelope that, at least in hindsight, were so out of synch with where film was headed. By 1967, she seemed tied to a Hollywood that no longer existed.

Agents, money - I wonder how many actors can afford to be picky about the roles they take? Especially a female back then. "Uppity bitch" they'd like be called.

*likely be called

Hepburn as well was tied to old Hollywood in '67 but surprisingly still had a hit with Wait Until Dark.

R77, Natalie at least had one more contemporary film after that, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which was also a big hit.

R73 Hepburn was too lady-like to play this high-class prostitute. Caron was little more earthy but she still had to wear ridiculously high heels and a padded brassiere to wear the costumes.

Few actresses in the early 1960s had more power to choose and even develop great roles for themselves than Natalie Wood. But she was a product of old Hollywood and her head was easily turned by the promise of an Edith Head wardrobe. She learned nothing from her success in Love With the Proper Stranger.

[quote] She’ll never get an Oscar and I for one am glad. She doesn’t deserve it karmically and she doesn’t deserve it technically and she doesn’t deserve it just for continuing to plague the world with her presence.

Cyd, what did she do to you?

Audrey had already played that high class hooker on Broadway, R82. And let us not forget, Holly Golightly was herself a pro.

How the fuck did Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn take over this thread? It's about ME!

Had she been wearing one of these, it would've been perfect.

Quelle horror.

My apologies. Linky Stinky.

[quote] How the fuck

Ninety-Year old Frenchwomen don't use that kind of language, R86.

Leslie would have had an Oscar win already if her best Hollywood work had not ended up on the floor!

^. Isabel Jeans should have had an Oscar for that role.

She should have been given the role that was foolishly given to the ugly Hermione Gingold.

[quote]although she should have won in 1963 had Patricia Neal been placed in the supporting actress category instead which is where she really belonged

Patricia Neal acted circles around everyone in "Hud", including Paul Newman.

You can't judge a performance by the length of screen time...Pat Neal's character was a critical part of the story.

And poor Patricia Neal had a stroke only about 18 months after this movie wrapped...what more did you want from her?