Product Description


Leslie Caron, the star of the musical
Gigi, brilliantly performs selections from Colette's autobiography,
Earthly Paradise. A touchstone of womanly wisdom, Colette wrote of the extraordinary bond between mother and daughter. A luminous presentation from the
Victoria Magazine Well-Spoken Companions series, recorded live at Merkin Hall in New York. 1 cassette.


Review


"Novelist Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette (1873-1954) gave a woman's voice of immense insight, wit, sensitivity and boulevard charm to the Belle Epoque. Leslie Caron, the baby-faced ballerina discovered by Gene Kelly, delightfully played Colette's gamine Gigi in the Lerner and Loewe musical film version of the 1943 novella or, more properly, recit...Leslie Caron is delightfully portraying French writer Colette with selections from the author's memoirs and various short stories." --
B'Nai B'Rith Life, January/February 1997


About the Author


Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette (1873-1954) was born in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France. Her early books were written in collaboration with her first husband, Henri Gauthier-Villars (pseudonym Willy); after their divorce in 1906 she appeared in music-halls in dance and mime, then settled as a writer. Her novels include the
Claudine series (1900--3),
Chri (1920), and
Gigi (1945). She won many awards for her work, and became a legendary figure in Paris.