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Plot summary
Sybil Wren danced with Barry Nichols and Les Girls, and years after the troupe broke up she writes a memoir about those days. One chapter tells of Angèle Ducros and an affair with Barry. Angèle, now married to Pierre Ducros, calls the book a libel and takes Sybil to court in London. On the stand, Sybil describes Paris in 1949, when Barry hired Angèle as a principal dancer and she moved into the flat Sybil shared with Joy Henderson. Sybil says Angèle was engaged to Pierre in secret and began an affair with Barry. Angèle then gives her own account: she says Sybil drank heavily, that Barry helped her stop, and that the two of them became involved.
Cast
- Stephen Vercoeas Mr. Outward
- George Navarroas Waiter (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Les Girls (1957)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Vera Caspary's story came from a Constance Tomkinson article in The Atlantic about Tomkinson's time in the Folies Bergere chorus, but the screenplay used only the title. Tomkinson was paid $80,000 for just two words, "Les Girls", and some joked she was the highest paid writer in the world.
- Les Girls was Gene Kelly's last musical under his MGM contract, which began in 1942, and it carried the last film score by Cole Porter, the next-to-last score of his career.
- The film was a major vehicle for choreographer Jack Cole and was one of the first films to list the role of choreographer in its opening credits.
- Plans for a sequel called Les Boys were announced right after release and never happened, but the film inspired Harry's Girls, an NBC sitcom starring Larry Blyden that ran for 15 episodes in the fall of 1963.
