Lili (DVD)

Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of it's star a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili a love he can express only through his puppets. "It is not often that the word 'enchanting' can accurately be applied to a musical" Clive Hirschhorn wrote in the Hollywood Musical "but it was the best way to describe Lili as well as Leslie Caron's genuinely touching performance." Nominated for six Academy Awards Lili offers sentiment without sugar simplicity without banality and a lyrical heart that beats to an Oscar winning Bronislau Kaper score highlighted by Hi-Lili Hi-Lo and an imaginative sequence of Caron dancing with her beloved puppets come to life. Mel Ferrer Jean Pierre Aumont Zsa Zsa Gabor Amanda Blake and Kurt Kasznar also star.

Starring: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, Amanda Blake, Alex Gerry, Ralph Dumke, Wilton Graff, George Baxter, Eda Reiss Merin, George Davis, Reginald Simpson, Mitchell Lewis, Fred Walton, Jeannine Ducasse, Claude Guy, Richard Grayson, Dorothy Jarnac, Arthur Mendez, Dick Lerner, Frank Radcliffe, Lars Hensen, Georgia Stark, Gene Conklin, Muzzy Marcellino, Ruby Ray

Director: Edwin H. Knopf

Rating: G