Word: moira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Famous Film Festival (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes...
...quite sure what all the shouting is about. Says Ed Sullivan, calmly: "Everything they're promising to do is something I've done already." Opera? Ed has presented Metropolitan Soprano Roberta Peters 21 times, oftener than any other performer on his show. Ballet? Moira Shearer, Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler's Wells Ballet troupe made their first U.S. TV appearances with Sullivan (whose show was known as Toast of the Town until last month). Drama? Ed has given his viewers excerpts from more than 50 Broadway hits, including the smash successes Pajama Game, The Member...
...result, Mendelssohn is more the hero of the evening than Shakespeare; Moira Shearer's dancing far surpasses any actor's speech; the ass's head that Bottom wears is more entertaining than Stanley Holloway's Bottom. Only Robert Helpmann as Oberon can render Shakespeare's diction as well as dance, can become something fleet, mischievous, magical-and believably Shakespearean...
Along with such notable starters, ticket buyers will have a choice of a second group of possible hits: All Summer Long, by Robert (Tea and Sympathy) Anderson, with John Kerr; Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Mendelssohn's music and Moira Shearer's dancing; Graham Greene's The Living Room; Lunatics and Lovers, a satire on sex plays, by Sidney (Dead End) Kingsley ; Portrait of a Lady, an adaptation of the Henry James novel, with Jennifer Jones; Truman Capote's musical, The House of Flowers, with Pearl Bailey; Sam & Bella Spewack...
British Ballerina Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer had her picture snapped in London as she practiced the Charleston for a film called The Man Who Loved Redheads, in which red-haired Moira plays four roles...