Actress and dancer. Gene Kelly got her to the movies for the film An American in Paris in 1951. Got a world-wide reputation for her roles in Lili (1953) and Gigi (1958).
Was president of the jury at the 'Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin' in 1989. Co-respondent in the Peter Hall-Leslie Caron divorce case was actor Warren Beatty. Born of a French father and an American mother For Peter Hall's 30th birthday her present was - simply - a Rolls Royce. She wanted to create her costumes for Daddy Long Legs by herself. Fred Astaire told her: "OK, but no feather, please", remembering the troubles he had gotten because of some too complicated dresses worn by Ginger Rogers. Her talent as a dancer had been already noticed in 1946 by the then married Gene Kelly and Betsy Blair in a Roland Petit's ballet on the theme of Orpheus, but they could not meet her at the end of the show because Caron's mother used to take her immediately away. Daughter, Jennifer Hall She and her daughter, Jennifer Hall, co-starred on an episode of _"Love Boat, The" (1977), in the parts of mother and daughter. Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980 Warren Beatty, named as co-respondent by Peter Hall in his divorce from Caron, was ordered by the London court to pay "the costs of the case". Was co-head of jury at the 'Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin' in 1989.