George Hormel II
Who was Leslie Caron 's spouse from 1951 to 1954?
Leslie Caron Leslie Claire Margaret Caron ( ; born 1 July 1931 ) is a French-American actress , dancer , and writer . She is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award , two BAFTA Awards , and a Primetime Emmy Award , in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards . Caron started her career as a ballerina . She made her film debut in the musical , An American in Paris ( 1951 ) , followed by roles in The Man with a Cloak ( 1951 ) , Glory Alley ( 1952 ) , and The Story of Three Loves ( 1953 ) , before receiving critical acclaim for her role of an orphan in Lili ( also 1953 ) , which earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and garnered nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award . As a leading lady , Caron went on to star in films such as The Glass Slipper ( 1955 ) , Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ) , Gigi ( 1958 ) , Fanny ( 1961 ) , both of which earned her Golden Globe nominations , Guns of Darkness ( 1962 ) , The L-Shaped Room ( 1962 ) , Father Goose ( 1964 ) , and A Very Special Favor ( 1965 ) . For her role as a single pregnant woman in The L-Shaped Room , Caron , in addition to receiving a second Academy Award nomination , won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a second BAFTA Award . Carons other roles include Is Paris Burning ? ( 1966 ) , Thats Entertainment ! ( 1974 ) in featured segments , The Man Who Loved Women ( 1977 ) , Valentino ( 1977 ) , Damage ( 1992 ) , Funny Bones ( 1995 ) , Chocolat ( 2000 ) , and Le Divorce ( 2003 ) . In 2007 , she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for portraying a rape victim in . Early life . Caron was born in Boulogne-sur-Seine , Seine ( now Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine ) , the daughter of Margaret ( née Petit ) , a Franco-American dancer on Broadway , and Claude Caron , a French chemist , pharmacist , perfumer , and boutique owner . While her older brother Aimery Caron became a chemist like their father , Leslie was prepared for a performing career from childhood by her mother . Career . Caron started her career as a ballerina . Gene Kelly discovered her in the Roland Petit company and cast her to appear opposite him in the musical , An American in Paris ( 1951 ) , a role in which a pregnant Cyd Charisse was originally cast . The prosperity , sunshine and abundance of California was a cultural shock to Caron . She had lived in Paris during the German occupation , which left her malnourished and anemic . She later remarked how nice people were in comparison to wartime Paris , in which poverty and deprivation had caused people to be bitter and violent . She had a friendly relationship with Kelly , who nicknamed her Lester the Pester . This role led to a long-term MGM contract and a sequence of films which included the musical , The Glass Slipper ( 1955 ) , and the drama , The Man with a Cloak ( 1951 ) , with Joseph Cotten and Barbara Stanwyck . Still , Caron has said of herself : Unfortunately , Hollywood considers musical dancers as hoofers . Regrettable expression . She also starred in the successful musicals Lili ( 1953 ) , with Mel Ferrer ; Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ) , with Fred Astaire ; and Gigi ( 1958 ) with Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier . In 1953 , Caron was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Lili . For her performance in the British drama , The L-Shaped Room ( 1962 ) , she won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress and the Golden Globe , and was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar . In the 1960s and thereafter , Caron worked in European films as well . Her later film assignments included Father Goose ( 1964 ) , with Cary Grant ; Ken Russells Valentino ( 1977 ) , in the role of silent-screen legend Alla Nazimova ; and Louis Malles Damage ( 1992 ) . Sometime in 1970 , Caron was one of the many actresses considered for the lead role of Eglantine Price in Disneys Bedknobs and Broomsticks , losing the role to British actress Angela Lansbury . In 1967 , she was a member of the jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival . In 1989 , she was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival . Caron has continued to act , appearing in the film Chocolat ( 2000 ) . During the 1980s , she appeared in several episodes of the soap opera Falcon Crest as Nicole Sauguet . She is one of the few actresses from the classic era of MGM musicals who are still active in film — a group that includes Rita Moreno , Margaret OBrien , and June Lockhart . Her other later credits include Funny Bones ( 1995 ) with Jerry Lewis and Oliver Platt ; The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ( 2000 ) with Judi Dench and Cleo Laine ; and Le Divorce ( 2003 ) , directed by James Ivory , with Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts . On 30 June 2003 , Caron traveled to San Francisco to appear as the special guest star in , a retrospective concert staged by San Franciscos 42nd Street Moon Company . In 2007 , her guest appearance on earned her a Primetime Emmy Award . On 27 April 2009 , Caron traveled to New York as an honored guest at a tribute to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe at the Paley Center for Media . For her contributions to the film industry , Caron was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 8 December 2009 with a motion pictures star located at 6153 Hollywood Boulevard . In February 2010 , she played Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris , which also featured Greta Scacchi and Lambert Wilson . In 2016 , Caron appeared in the ITV television series The Durrells as the Countess Mavrodaki . Veteran documentarian Larry Weinsteins Leslie Caron : The Reluctant Star premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 28 June 2016 . Personal life . In September 1951 , Caron married American George Hormel II , a grandson of the founder of the Hormel meat-packing company . They divorced in 1954 . During that period , while under contract to MGM , she lived in Laurel Canyon in a Normandie style 1927 mansion near the country store on Laurel Canyon Blvd . One bedroom was all mirrored for her dancing rehearsals . Her second husband was British theatre director Peter Hall . They married in 1956 and had two children : Christopher John Hall ( TV producer ) in 1957 and Jennifer Caron Hall , a writer , painter , and actress , in 1958 . Her son-in-law , married to Jennifer , is Glenn Wilhide , the producer and screenwriter . Caron had an affair with Warren Beatty in 1961 . When she and Hall divorced in 1965 , Beatty was named as a co-respondent and was ordered by the London court to pay the costs of the case . In 1969 , Caron married Michael Laughlin , the producer of the film Two-Lane Blacktop ; they divorced in 1980 . Caron was also romantically linked to Dutch television actor Robert Wolders from 1994 to 1995 . From June 1993 until September 2009 , Caron owned and operated the hotel and restaurant , Auberge la Lucarne aux Chouettes ( The Owls Nest ) , in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne , about south of Paris . Unhappy with the lack of work in France , she left for England in 2013 . In her autobiography , Thank Heaven , she states that she obtained American citizenship in time to vote for Barack Obama for president . Theatre . - 1955 : Orvet , by Jean Renoir , director Jean Renoir , Théâtre de la Renaissance , Paris - 1955 : Gigi , by Anita Loos , director Sir Peter Hall , New Theatre , London - 1961 : La sauvage , by Jean Anouilh , BBC ( live ) , London - 1961 : Ondine , by Jean Giraudoux , director Sir Peter Hall , Aldwych Theatre , London - 1965 : Carola , by Jean Renoir , director Norman Lloyd , PBS TV , Los Angeles - 1975–1981 : 13 , rue de lamour ( Monsieur Chasse ) , by Georges Feydeau , director Basil Langton , US and Australia - 1978 : Can-Can , musical by Cole Porter & Abe Burrows , director John Bishop , US and Canadian tour - 1983 : The rehearsal by Jean Anouilh , director Gillian Lynne , English tour - 1984 : On your toes by Rodgers and Hart , director George Abbott , US tour - 1985 : One for the Tango ( Apprends-moi Céline ) by Maria Pacôme , director Pierre Epstein , US tour - 1985 : Linaccessible , author and director Krzysztof Zanussi , Théâtre du Petit Odéon of Paris and Spoletto Festival , Italy - 1991 : Grand hotel , adaptation from the novel of Vicki Baum , director Tommy Tune , Berlin - 1991 : Le martyre de Saint Sebastien by Claude Debussy and Gabriele dAnnunzio , narration , directed by Michael Tilson Thomas , London Symphony Orchestra - 1995 : Georges Sand et Chopin , author Bruno Villien , Greenwich Festival , Great Britain - 1997 : Nocturne for lovers , adaptation Gavin Lambert , director Kado Kostzer , Chichester Festival Theatre , Great Britain - 1997 : The story of Babar , by Jean de Brunhoff , narration , music from Francis Poulenc , Chichester Festival , Great Britain - 1998 : Apprends-moi Céline , by Maria Pacôme , director Raymond Acquaviva , French tour - 1999 : Readings from Colette , director Roger Hodgeman , Melbourne Festival , Australia - 1999 : Nocturne for lovers , director Roger Hodgeman , Melbourne Festival , Australia - 2006 : I Remember It Well Special Guest Artist in a retrospective tribute to Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner ( and his music ) , 42nd Street Moon Theatre Company , Herbst Theater , San Francisco - 2009 : Thank Heaven – platform at the Théâtre National of London - 2009 : A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim , director Lee Blakeley , Théâtre du Châtelet , Paris - 2014 : Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks by Richard Alfieri , director Michael Arabian , Laguna Playhouse , Laguna Beach , California Recordings . - The Lover ( lAmant ) by Marguerite Duras on cassettes - First World War for the radio - Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien by Claude Debussy and Gabriele dAnnunzio , with the London Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas - Gigi by Colette in English on cassettes recorded in public at Merkin Concert Hall at Abraham Goodman House in New York City , 1996 - Narrated Carnival of the Animals music by Camille St Saëns with the Nash Ensemble – Wigmore Hall , 1999 - The Plutocrats play for the BBC dir . Bill Bryden , written by Michael Hastings , from the novel by Booth Tarkington , January 1999 Bibliography . - Caron , Leslie : Vengeance . Doubleday , 1982 . - Caron , Leslie : Thank Heaven : A Memoir . Viking Adult , 2009 . Honors . - Chevalier de la Légion dhonneur by President François Mitterrand in June 1993 - Ordre National du Mérite , by Catherine Trautmann , Minister of Culture , in February 1998 - Officier de la Légion dHonneur , given by Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin in June 2004 - Medaille DOr De La Ville De Paris in 2012 - Commandeur de la Légion dhonneur in March 2013 - J F Kennedy Gold Medal in the Arts in 2015