Word: moira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political sights of London. He saw the Magna Carta (without comment), Shakespeare's signature and other treasures in the British Museum, visited the Tower, had a good look at Windsor Castle, took in Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House and presented roses and gladioli to Ballerina Moira Shearer. When they were lucky enough to catch him on one of his unannounced rounds and to see past the screen of plainclothesmen, bobbies and motorcycle cops that surrounded him, Britons also got a good look at Tito. There were scattered boos from Catholics irate over Belgrade's persistent mistreatment...
...JEALOUS LOVER pulls out all the heart throbs in a teary story about a British ballet impresario (James Mason) and a dancer with a weak heart (Moira Shearer). This yarn has all the trappings of high romance: shadowy settings, flickering candlelight, crashing music and overwrought passions. But its poetry is buried beneath a heavy load of prosaic moviemaking...
...slick, The Story of Three Loves is at its simple and touching best in the individual performances of its three lovely leading ladies. Red-haired Ballerina Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer dances gracefully and acts appealingly as the tragic heroine of The Jealous Lover. Leslie (Lili) Caron brings a fresh, bright-eyed personality to the role of the young governess. And pensive Pier (Teresa) Angeli, with her child's face and Garbo-like eyes, gives the part of the trapeze artist a passionate sensitivity that is only vaguely hinted at in the script and direction...
...Born. To Moira Shearer, 26, red-haired ballerina (Tales of Hoffmann), and Ludovic Kennedy, 32, wartime Royal Navy lieutenant, author and onetime college librarian: their first child, a daughter; in London. Weight...
...Scotland's Moira Paterson, the British Women's Amateur golf championship, over England's Frances Stephens, one up on the 38th hole after being five down on the 23rd; at Troon, Scotland. Miss Paterson is the first Scotswoman to win the British title since...