Leslie Caron on Loose Women

[Ray]

She was delightful, and very interesting, with stories about Fred Astaire and Warren Beatty, and it was infuriating that she was allotted just 5 minutes. I really don't understand when they have such a big star as a guest that they don't give them at least 15 minutes to chat. If anyone is interested, it is repeated again at 2.10 AM.

[cornershop15]

I watched this myself, Ray, and agree with you. She was in great form and didn't complain, but it's really disappointing when the presenters show (or feign) interest in their subject, get one or two anecdotes out of them and move swiftly on to the next item.



I find a lot of chat shows embarassing but if the stars are given enough time, and the chance to speak - without feeling they're interrupting the host - it can make for great television. Not today though!



Leslie, the star of one of my favourite films, The L-Shaped Room, was in some strange TV movie about 20 years ago, where she played a reclusive star allowing an obsessed fan into her house, but I can't identify it - not even at IMDb. I didn't like the film but am curious to know what it was.

[Euryale]

How about Die Unerreichbare from 1982?:



Die Unerreichbare Synopsis



E.

[cornershop15]

name='Euryale']How about Die Unerreichbare from 1982?:



Die Unerreichbare Synopsis



E.

You're a genius! How did you get that one? Don't know that website at all. That is definitely the same film, though I don't remember it being a German production. I'm gradually recalling co-star Daniel Webb's posing as a photographer at the beginning.



IMDb does at least reveal that it's English title was The Unapproachable, which was probably the one used during that BBC2 showing.



Many thanks (again!)

[didi-5]

Leslie is also making two London appearances at the BFI (23 Sept) and the National Theatre (27 Oct).

[theuofc]

Leslie Caron will also be discussing her book on the 18th October at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.



Here's a Times interview with the lovely lady:





Thank heaven, I can now dish the dirt, boys - Times Online



Barbara

[Ray]

name='cornershop15']I watched this myself, Ray, and agree with you. She was in great form and didn't complain, but it's really disappointing when the presenters show (or feign) interest in their subject, get one or two anecdotes out of them and move swiftly on to the next item.



I find a lot of chat shows embarassing but if the stars are given enough time, and the chance to speak - without feeling they're interrupting the host - it can make for great television. Not today though!



Leslie, the star of one of my favourite films, The L-Shaped Room, was in some strange TV movie about 20 years ago, where she played a reclusive star allowing an obsessed fan into her house, but I can't identify it - not even at IMDb. I didn't like the film but am curious to know what it was.

Thats sounds facinating, I would love to see it. Leslie's first appearance in an American film was a straight acting role in Barbara Stanwyck's, The Man With a Cloak. This was only an MGM programmer, and so An American in Paris also filmed in 1951 was released first.

[Tomwhisky]

Didn't see the broadcast but she made two pages over the week-end.

[Moor Larkin]

name='Tomwhisky']Didn't see the broadcast but she made two pages over the week-end.

Daily Mail?



Says she passed some time with Jack Cardiff I noticed.......



Was nobody safe?....................



At least she seemed to remember all their names..........



Wish I'd been in showbiz...........

[Steve Crook]

name='Moor Larkin']Says she passed some time with Jack Cardiff I noticed.......



Was nobody safe?....................

Jack was the cinematographer on Fanny (1961), which starred Leslie.



Jack was always a gentleman



But Leslie doesn't make it into the list of beauties that Jack photographed and talks about at http://www.jackcardiff.co.uk



Steve

[will.15]

From Alan Jay Lerner's On the Street Where I Live, on the making of Gigi:



"I then made an appointment with Leslie. She had been living in London...and I had not seen her since An American in Paris-when she came to Hollywood equipped with one of those adorable French accents that everyone is so mad about. I was astonished to discover that she now sounded more English than the English, a disease that often afflicts Americans who move to London. I did not think the French were as susceptible."

[Tomwhisky]

name='Moor Larkin']Daily Mail?



Says she passed some time with Jack Cardiff I noticed.......



Was nobody safe?....................



At least she seemed to remember all their names..........



Wish I'd been in showbiz...........

More than likely (!) we did purchase another paper so I am - embarrassedly - confused Did read it though, always searching for love it seems (aren't we all!) found a toy-boy in WB

[Tomwhisky]

Hi Moor Larkin. Life gets strange! Honestly no-way did I intend a pun upon your name with 'more than likely'

[faginsgirl]

Well a fewpeople know my views on `loose women` anyway.



xx

[Rick C]

Leslie Caron guesting on the BBC Radio 4 chat-show programme "Midweek" yesterday, Wednesday 23 September @ 9.00 am. Think you can still get it on the i-player facility.