Leslie Caron, female lead for An American in Paris (1951), is to be featured on CBS Sunday Morning this coming Sunday.

This January 17, CBS Sunday Morning will be airing a piece on actress Leslie Caron, who starred alongside Gene Kelly as Lise in the 1951 movie An American in Paris. Caron recently came from London to see the current Broadway production of an American in Paris, and took part in the curtain call. The 84-year-old Franco-American actress and dancer was a ballerina in her early career. Her breakout film role was An American in Paris, and she later starred in other successful film musicals, including Daddy Long Legs (1955) and Gigi (1958). Since then, her acting career has involved both the American and European film industries. She appeared as Madame Audel in the 2000 British-American film Chocolat, and in 2007 won a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest appearance in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

Check your local CBS listings and tune in on Sunday morning to enjoy a special highlight of Leslie Caron’s life and work.

 

Sarah Sisk is an undergraduate English major at U-M’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts. She is working with the Gershwin Initiative as an undergraduate research assistant in the university’s UROP program.