| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Won | Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Bronislau Kaper |
| Nominated | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Leslie Caron | |
| Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Cedric Gibbons Paul Groesse Edwin B. Willis Arthur Krams | |||
| Best Cinematography, Color Robert H. Planck | |||
| Best Director Charles Walters | |||
| Best Writing, Screenplay Helen Deutsch | |||
MGM
Directed by Charles Walters
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, MGM)
(Turner Classic Movies)
Leslie Caron plays a 16-year-old orphan in France who ends up with a carnival. She falls in love with a dashing magician, unaware that he is really married. A puppeteer builds a new act around her, and also falls in love with her, but she is unaware of his feelings. In a final daydream-fantasy sequence, she dances with life-sized versions of the puppets, causing her to suddenly realize she too is in love and rush back for the happy ending. Caron is too old for the role, French stereotypes abound and the whole puppet thing was just plain creepy.
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