| Lili | |
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| Directed by | Charles Walters |
| Screenplay by | Helen Deutsch |
| Based on | The Man Who Hated People 1950 in The Saturday Evening Post by Paul Gallico |
| Produced by | Edwin H. Knopf |
| Starring | Leslie Caron Mel Ferrer Jean-Pierre Aumont Zsa Zsa Gabor |
| Cinematography | Robert H. Planck |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
| Music by | Bronisław Kaper Gerald Fried (uncredited) |
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| Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,353,000[1] |
| Box office | $5,393,000[1] |
Lili is a 1953 American film released by MGM. It stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Score,[2] and was also entered in the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.[3] It was later adapted for the stage under the title Carnival! (1961).
Lili's screenplay, written by Helen Deutsch, was based on a short story and treatment titled "The Seven Souls of Clement O'Reilly" written by Paul Gallico, which in turn was based upon "The Man Who Hated People," a short story by Gallico that appeared in the October 28, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.[4] After the film's success, Gallico expanded his story into a 1954 novella entitled Love of Seven Dolls.
- ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ "NY Times: Lili". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Lili". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
- ^ The screen credits refer only to "a story by Paul Gallico"; Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2005 specifically says that it was adapted from "The Man Who Hated People".