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Cast as Europe's ace ballerina (one Lina Varsavina), Loretta limps bravely through one dying-swan triumph after another. She neither looks, acts nor walks like a ballerina, but in sequences which permit her to be more or less herself she performs ably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...Varsavina's life give her no end of trouble. They are three: Stanislas Rosing (Conrad Veidt), who snatches her from a circus, makes her a great dancer, marries her, dies; Roger Chevis (John Shepperd), who dies before he can marry her; and David Gibson (Dean Jagger), rich U.S. shipbuilder, who marries her but lives to tell the tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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