Lili (1953 film)

Lili
Lili
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)
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's, Inc.
Release date	March 10, 1953;
Running time	81 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$1,353,000
Box office	$5,393,000

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".

[Mannix-1] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[NY_Times-2] "NY Times: Lili". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2008-12-21.

[festival-cannes.com-3] "Festival de Cannes: Lili". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2024-02-20.

[4] 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".

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