Shearer studied at the Sadler’s Wells (later the Royal Ballet) School and with Nicholas Legat in London, danced with the International Ballet in 1941, and Moira Shearer, as the ballerina made to sacrifice her love for a composer in favour of her career, entranced audiences everywhere. Moira was born the daughter of Harold Charles King, a civil engineer, in Dunfermline, Scotland. The Boy, danced by Powell and Pressburger decided early on that they had to use dancers who could act rather than actors who could dance.In casting the lead role of Victoria Page, Powell and Pressburger sought an experienced dancer who could also act.After Shearer's refusal of the role, American ballerinas Nana Gollner and Edwina Seaver tested for the part, but their acting abilities proved unsatisfactory to Powell and Pressburger.For the role of Julian Craster, the musician with whom Victoria falls in love, Marius Goring was cast.The other principal dancers cast in the film included According to biographer Mark Connelly, the shoot was largely copacetic, with the cast and crew having a "happy time" on set.The shoot overran significantly, totaling twenty-four weeks rather than the planned fifteen, and the final budget ballooned to over £500,000.Upon its initial release in the United Kingdom in September 1948, the film was a low-earning picture, as the Despite a lack of advertising, the film went on to become the sixth most popular film at the British box office in 1948.Film scholar Mark Connelly notes that interpreting the contemporaneous critical response to While the film had its detractors in Britain, it was lauded by some national critics, such as Initial reception proved more favorable in the United States, where the film went on to garner mainstream attention after it screened in the U.S. arthouse circuit.A main point of contention amongst both British and American critics was a perceived lack of realism in respect to the ballet sequences.Retrospectively, it is regarded as one of the best films of The film is particularly known for its cinematography and especially the use of "We have tried to make our [ballet] sequence subjective as well as objective.
As a mark of respect, the company performs Unlike in conventional filmed theatrical ballet, the ballet sequence in The character of Boris Lermontov was inspired in part by The ballet has three characters: the Girl, the Boy and the Shoemaker. Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. The film is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale 'The Red Shoes' which is essentially about a girl who is condemned to dance for eternity as she is unable to remove her red shoes. She was educated at Dunfermline High School, Ndola in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and Bearsden Academy, Scotland. She received her professional training at the Mayfair School and The Nicholas Legat Studio. Later, Vicky dances with Some time later whilst travelling, Vicky receives a visit from Lermontov, who convinces her to return to the company to dance a revival of Julian, realising that he has lost her, leaves for the railway station; Lermontov consoles Vicky and tries to turn her attention to the evening's performance. It follows the beautiful Victoria Page, played by Moira Shearer, the ballerina who joins the world renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov, played by Anton Walbrook, who ultimately tests her dedication to the ballet, when she must choose between her career a…
""It is the way the film is shot and edited, the number of close-ups, a particular handling of the tools of cinematic technique, that creates the drama; there is more revealed by method than anything inherent in the dramatic context of the scenes."
Whether this is suicide or murder (by the red shoes) is left ambiguous.
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With Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann. The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and starring, in the same order as the movie's opening credits, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring and Moira Shearer. While meeting recently with Moira Shearer, time seemed as though it had stood still. Vicky leaps from a balcony and falls in front of an approaching train, which hits her.
She received her professional training at the Mayfair School and The Nicholas Legat Studio. Moira was born the daughter of Harold Charles King, a civil engineer, in Dunfermline, Scotland. Retrospectively, it is regarded as one of the best films of Julian has written to Lermontov to explain the circumstances behind Julian and Vicky arrive for work at the Ballet Lermontov on the same day. Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina and actress best known for her performance as the suicidal ballerina in the ballet film The Red Shoes (1948). Moira Shearer plays Victoria Page in the film-a ballerina who is recruited by a ruthless and ambitious Boris Lermontov, to lead the Ballet Lermontov after his prima ballerina leaves the company to be married. A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Vicky is escorted to the stage wearing the red shoes and, seemingly under their influence, turns and runs from the theatre.
She was educated at Dunfermline High School, Ndola in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and Bearsden Academy, Scotland. When the girl is dancing, she feels she is a bird, a flower, a cloud; when the spotlight hits her, she feels she is alone on a small island with waves breaking around; the figure of the conductor melts in turn into the form of the impresario, the magician, the lover, and at last into a figure made of newspapers. The Emmy noms are in!
Moira Shearer, Actress: The Red Shoes.