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...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...
...plot moons over the rise of a young ballerina (Moira Shearer) and a young composer (Marius Goring) in Impresario Anton Walbrook's celebrated ballet troupe. Having spent what seems like a feature-length lifetime in making the two youngsters famous, it runs them afoul of the impresario's deadpan dictum that marriage makes a career in ballet impossible...
Except for pretty, red-haired Moira Shearer, the film is not very fortunate in its performers. Miss Shearer, a ballet dancer appearing in her first movie, is an attractive actress who looks wonderful in tights. The dancing, featuring Leonide Massine and Robert Helpmann as both choreographers and performers, is proficient. But, during the longest ballet sequence, the badly inflamed Technicolor will not make the picture any more exciting to balletomanes. People who don't much care for the ballet to begin with may conclude from The Red Shoes that ballet folk are a more tiresome lot of exhibitionists offstage...