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...insect princess and a human clockmaker, and set it dancing with steps that were largely borrowings from a dozen Massine ballets. About all that made the evening enjoyable, particularly to the men in the stalls, were the pretty legs and graceful dancing of the princess, redhaired Ballerina Moira Shearer, who has become the pin-up girl of British ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pin-Up Ballerina | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Moira Shearer's pert, clean-limbed dancing is by no means up to the superb technical and dramatic skill of Sadler's Wells' prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn. But Moira does have what one starry-eyed London critic called "deerlike littleness and midsummer coloring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pin-Up Ballerina | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Though she is only 22, Moira Shearer has already decided that a ballerina has too little future; she'd rather become a stage actress. Says she: "It's so awful to become a ballet dancer who is past her prime and have the audiences make allowances for you. I'd rather leave ballet before I begin to drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pin-Up Ballerina | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

This year Hollywood plans to reissue at least 68 pictures, twice as many as last year. Moviegoers are already seeing, or will see, Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford in The Women (1939), Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941), Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart in Destry Rides Again (1939), Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard in Intermezzo (1939) and Paul Muni in Scarface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Another Time Around | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...skiing in the early '30s belonged to no one man. Averell Harriman, as board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, had a hand in it. He persuaded his fellow directors that the U.P., hungry for prestige and passengers, should build a resort at Sun Valley. Hollywooders (including Norma Shearer, Claudette Colbert and Darryl F. Zanuck) made it fashionable. Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson hired Austria's famed skier, Hannes Schneider, and spent $1,000,000 to build his home town, North Conway, N. H., into one of the East's major ski resorts (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ski Fever | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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