RED, 'RED' WHINE Robert Helpmann and Shearer can attest, this is harder than it looks
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RED, 'RED' WHINE Robert Helpmann and Shearer can attest, this is harder than it looks

The Red Shoes

Starring Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, and Marius Goring

''The Red Shoes'' is a dance movie you need to see

Ballerina Shearer didn't consider herself much of an actress, but you'd never know it to watch her stunning performance in this greatest of all dance movies. In a plot inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a lethal pair of enchanted dancing shoes, Shearer plays Vicki, a ballerina torn between love (represented by Goring, who plays her composer husband) and career (in the form of Walbrook, her impresario and taskmaster). It's a visually gorgeous tale (its art direction won an Oscar, and its cinematography captures dance like no film before or since) that ends in tragedy, but it nonetheless inspired little girls everywhere to become ballerinas.

Originally posted Dec 11, 2003
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