Leslie Caron Articles
Jack Kerouac/THE SUBTERRANEANS Movie, Pre-Kristen Stewart ON THE ROAD/Mary Lou
ON THE ROAD Letter: Jack Kerouac Wanted Marlon Brando for Dean; Kerouac Would Play Sal [Photo: Leslie Caron.] On the Road was never made into a movie during Jack Kerouac's lifetime. However, the lesser-known The Subterraneans, which Kerouac mentions in his letter to Marlon Brando, was turned into an MGM movie in 1960. Needless to say, the final film had little in common with Kerouac's [...]
Roland Petit Dead at 87
French dancer and choreographer Roland Petit died in Geneva on Sunday. He was 87. Associated with the Paris Opera Ballet and the Ballet de Marseille for a number of years, Petit was credited for creating more than 100 ballets throughout his career. Additionally, he choreographed dance sequences for a handful of movies, notably Samuel Goldwyn's Hans Christian Andersen (1952), a color extravaganza starring Danny Kaye, [...]
Best Films – 1953
Jacques Tati in Mr. Hulot’s Holiday FILM The Bandwagon d: Vincente Minnelli; scr: Adolph Green, Betty Comden The Big Heat d: Fritz Lang; scr: Sidney Boehm Blowing Wild d: Hugo Fregonese; scr: Philip Yordan Calamity Jane d: David Butler; scr: James O’Hanlon Gentlemen Prefer Blondes d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer How to Marry a Millionaire d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Nunnally Johnson I Confess d: [...]