

Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
Acting
Caron's fragility masks steel — watch her eyes.
Cinematography
MGM dreamscape meets carnival grit.
Score
Bronislau Kaper's 'Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo' will haunt you.

Director
Charles Walters
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The puppeteers' voices were dubbed by Mel Ferrer himself, making his character literally speak through them.
This musical briefly outgrossed 'From Here to Eternity' — America's brief obsession with vulnerable French waifs in Technicolor.