Editing Leslie Caron (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Leslie Caron - Maruice Chevalier - 1957.jpg|thumb|Caron with her son [[Christopher Hall (producer)|Christopher]] and [[Maurice Chevalier]] on the set of ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'' (1958)]]

In September 1951, Caron married American [[Geordie Hormel|George Hormel II]], a grandson of [[George A. Hormel]], the founder of the [[Hormel]] meat-packing company. They divorced in 1954.<ref>{{cite book| title=Mill on the Willow: A History of Mower County, Minnesota| year=1984| author=Mower County History Committee| publisher=Graphic Pub. Co.| location=Lake Mills, Iowa| page=295| url=http://lyle.mn/content/mill-willow-history-mower-county-minnesota}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Hormel Son and French Dancer Wed| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98541071/the-minneapolis-star/| newspaper=[[Star Tribune|Minneapolis Star]]| date=September 24, 1951| page=2| access-date=March 27, 2022}}</ref> During that period, while under contract to MGM, she lived in [[Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles| Laurel Canyon]] in a Normandie style 1927 mansion near the country store on Laurel Canyon Blvd. One bedroom was all mirrored for her dancing rehearsals.{{Citation needed |date=April 2024}} 

Her second husband was British theatre director [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]]. They married in 1956 and had two children: [[Christopher Hall (producer)|Christopher John Hall]], a television drama producer, and [[Jennifer Caron Hall]], a writer, painter and actress. Her son-in-law, married to Jennifer, is [[Glenn Wilhide]], a producer and screenwriter.{{Citation needed |date=April 2024}} 

Caron had an affair with [[Warren Beatty]] in 1961. When she and Hall divorced in 1965, Beatty was named as a [[co-respondent]] and was ordered by the London court to pay the costs of the case.<ref>{{cite news |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |title=Warren Beatty Strikes Again |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946022,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114112813/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946022,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 14, 2007 |first=Frank |last=Rich |date=July 3, 1978}}</ref> In 1969, Caron married [[Michael Laughlin]], the producer of the film ''[[Two-Lane Blacktop]];'' the couple divorced in 1980.{{Citation needed |date=April 2024}} 

Caron was also romantically linked to Dutch television actor [[Robert Wolders]] from 1994 to 1995.<ref name="tcmdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.tcmdb.com/participant.jsp?participantId=29278 |title=Biography for Leslie Caron |website=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=November 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226012022/http://www.tcmdb.com/participant.jsp?participantId=29278 |archive-date=February 26, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

From 1981, she rented and lived for a few years in a mill (the "Moulin Neuf") in the French village of [[Chaumot, Yonne]], which had belonged to [[Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony]] in the late 18th century and which depended on his princely castle.<ref>Jim Serre Djouhri, "De Hollywood au Moulin Neuf, dans les pas de l'actrice Leslie Caron", Bulletin des ''Etudes Villeneuviennes'' n °57, Société Historique, Archéologique, Artistique et Culturelle des Amis du Vieux Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, [[Villeneuve-sur-Yonne]], 2022.</ref> From June 1993 until September 2009, Caron owned and operated the hotel and restaurant ''Auberge la Lucarne aux Chouettes'' (The Owls' Nest), in [[Villeneuve-sur-Yonne]], about {{convert|130|km|mi|abbr=on|sigfig=1}} south of Paris.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-tr-spano15oct15,0,3801422,full.column?coll=la-news-columns |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106025632/http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-tr-spano15oct15,0,3801422,full.column?coll=la-news-columns |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 6, 2007 |title=French inn: Her latest stage |date=October 15, 2006 |first=Susan |last=Spano}}</ref> Caron's mother had committed suicide in her 60s; suffering from a lifetime of depression, Caron also considered doing so in 1995. She was hospitalized for a month and began attending [[Alcoholics Anonymous]].{{r|hattenstone20210621}} Unhappy with the lack of acting opportunities in France, she returned to England in 2013.

In her autobiography, ''Thank Heaven'', she states that she obtained American citizenship in time to vote for [[Barack Obama]] for president.<ref>{{cite book |title=Thank Heaven: A Memoir |url=https://archive.org/details/thankheavenmemoi00caro_0 |url-access=registration |first=Leslie |last=Caron |date=November 25, 2009 |publisher=[[Viking Adult]] |location=New York|isbn=978-0-6700-2134-5}}</ref>

In October 2021, she was chosen to receive the Oldie of the Year Award by [[The Oldie]] magazine.<ref>{{cite news |title=Leslie Caron, the Oldie of the Year |work=The Oldie |url=https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/leslie-caron-the-oldie-of-the-year-hugo-vickers |first=Hugo |last=Vickers |date=October 19, 2021}}</ref> It had been initially offered to Queen [[Elizabeth II]], who had declined it on the grounds that she did not meet the criteria, even though she was five years older than Caron.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/19/queen-declines-oldie-of-the-year-award| title='You are as old as you feel': Queen declines Oldie of the Year award| first=Caroline| last=Davies| date=October 19, 2021| newspaper=The Guardian| location=London| access-date=March 27, 2022}}</ref>