Word: shearer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haired Ballerina-Cinemactress Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes) hustled offstage after a concert in Edinburgh and paid her respects to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh without stopping to change costume. She thus demonstrated beautifully that all curtseys to royalty should be executed by ballerinas in short ballet skirts...
Britain's Moira Shearer, red-haired prima ballerina of the movie The Red Shoes (TIME, Oct. 25), panned her own film as bad ballet. In a lecture to London's Royal Academy of Dancing, she said that making the picture had been a "mistake," and that furthermore, the display advertising made her look like "Jane Russell in black tights...
...orchestra glided into the opening bars of Sergei Prokofiev's score and the curtain went up on Cinderella. Then, for two hours, an eager-to-be-enchanted audience found plenty of reason to be. With her thistledown lightness and grace, pert, piquant Moira Shearer (dancing star of the movie Red Shoes) danced well and looked the part of Cinderella. Her two ugly sisters, one of them danced by Choreographer Ashton himself, couldn't have been uglier, and her prince (Michael Somes) couldn't have been more charming. Reported the London Daily Mail: "The curtain calls seemed...
...show is almost stolen by the clowning of Leonide Massinc, who could almost be called the Grand Old Man of the Dance, if he would allow the "Old." But he does not steal the show because new, red-headed Moira Shearer does. Looking as fetching as Becky Thatcher grown up, Miss Shearer is also a surprisingly capable actress in this, her first film. She plays the young ballerina and dances the lead in "The Red Shoes" ballet, based on the Hans Anderson tale, and carries off both with more talent and wile than has been seen in a long while...
...film a ballet entirely from fifth-row-center but neither should it show the movements of the dance as if they were viewed from an aerial kaleidoscope. The whole effect (except for the final bit at the church) is only that--effect. One gets the idea of Miss Shearer leaping through seas of rippling cellophane and grotesque faces, but there are hardly 20 continuous minutes of sustained dancing. Miss Shearer is lost and with her the dance...