It's also about the love/hate relationship the girl has with the disfigured puppet-master, a former hockey player whose face was scarred after accidents on the ice. Robineau (a French lady), Doctor Henderson (a stuffy penguin), and Mr. The puppets are Peter (a leprechaun), Panda (a fat panda), Arthur (a raffish crocodile), Mme. The story (available to read here ) tells the tale of Milly Maynard, a young woman who appears on the Peter and Panda show, a popular children's television show, on which she talks to six puppet characters. The short story differs from this novella. It was published in the Saturday Evening Post in the Octoissue. Gallico titled, The Man Who Hated People. She accepts, and her natural manner of interacting with the puppets becomes the most valuable part of the act.This is the expanded novella of a story by Mr. Afterwards, Paul and his partner Jacquot ( Kurt Kasznar) offer Lili a job in the act, talking with the puppets. Soon, a large group of carnival workers is enthralled watching Lili's interaction with the puppets, as she is seemingly unaware that there is a puppeteer behind the curtain. He strikes up a conversation with her through his puppets-a brash red-haired boy named Carrot Top, a sly fox, Reynardo, a vain ballerina, Marguerite, and a cowardly giant, Golo.
Homeless and heartbroken, she contemplates suicide, unaware that she is being watched by the carnival's puppeteer Paul ( Mel Ferrer). When Lili consults the magician for advice, he tells her to go back to where she came from.
Lili is fired on her first night when she spends her time watching the magic act instead of waiting tables. Lili is infatuated with him and follows him to the carnival, where on learning that she is 16, he helps her get a job as waitress. She is rescued by a handsome, smooth-talking, womanizing carnival magician, Marc, whose stage name is Marcus the Magnificent ( Jean-Pierre Aumont). A local shopkeeper offers her employment, then tries to take advantage of her. Naive country girl Lili ( Leslie Caron) arrives in a provincial town in hopes of locating an old friend of her late father, only to find that he has died.
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