"Lili" aired on the ABC anthology series "Off To See The Wizard" in two parts, in October 1967. Funny how I remember it. I didn't appreciate Leslie Caron until years later when I saw her in other things, and loved her dancing and overall presence. I would not mind seeing the movie again, now that I'm older.

The lack of image sharpness may be a result of the slowness of Kodachrome in 1952 (16 ASA, I believe) rather than poor focus. Everything in the frame is soft, suggesting a degree of camera shake. Even in bright theatrical lighting, if Mr. Vaccaro attempted to capture this image hand-held (rather than on a tripod) he was risking some blur.

Leslie Caron was featured in a 2006 Law & Order SVU episode for which she won an Emmy. Attached is a photo of her from that show.The second item is that my wife and I enjoyed our Honeymoon Trip to St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. While there we bought a few bottles of rare wine & whiskey at her father's store in Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the Virgin Islands.

A casual glance had this as Lyndon Johnson and Louise Lasser.

Mr Vaccaro didn't have a focus puller.

MGM molded Leslie into the very essence of leggy, smiling, wholesomely voluptuous, bobbed-hair, 1950's prettiness. "Introducing Leslie Caron" is worth a search. All of which belies her considerable and wide ranging acting skills demonstrated over her 50+ year movie career. My family used to drag my young self to those MGM musicals which mostly bored me to death, but I can remember noting that Leslie was something special.

I don't think the stage hand just left of Ms. Caron is trying to poke her eye out -- I believe he's using a stick guide to adjust her facial lighting from stage lights on the left.

[Looks more like the focus puller measuring camera-to-subject distance. -tterrace]

That's a wonderful movie; a bit old fashioned, perhaps, but very well done. Great title song!