Burr Tillstrom began making puppets and having puppet shows in the 1930's. In 1947, he joined forces with radio singer Fran Allison and began broadcasting Kukla, Fran, and Ollie in Chicago. Kukla was a bald clown, and Ollie was a dragon. Tillstrom operated the puppets behind a scrim that reflected projected light, but you could see through it on the other side, and looked at a television monitor behind the puppet stage with him to monitor the performance.
In 1953, the dynamic of a girl talking to puppets was combined with a short story, "The Man Who Hated People," and his novella "Love of Seven Dolls," by Paul Gallico, to produce the film LiLi with Leslie Caron and Mel Ferer (Audrey Hepburn's Husband). The same story was used to write the musical play "Carnival."
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