Lili is a 1953
American film released by
MGM. It stars
Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets. The screenplay by
Helen Deutsch was adapted from "The Man Who Hated People", a short story by
Paul Gallico which appeared in the October 28, 1950, issue of
The Saturday Evening Post.