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Moira Shearer

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Moira Shearer, Lady Kennedy (17 January 1926 – 31 January 2006), was an internationally renowned British ballet dancer and actress. [1]

91 relations: Alan Carter (dancer), Anita Loos, Anton Walbrook, Bearsden, Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir, Black Tights, Brigadoon (film), Cab Kaye, Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff, Cinderella (Ashton), Citizens Theatre, Coppélia, Dance in film, Deaths in January 2006, Doris Langley Moore, Dorothy Bond, Dracula Cha Cha Cha, Dunfermline, Dunfermline High School, Edgar Evans (tenor), Eurovision Song Contest 1972, Franklin White (dancer), Frederic Franklin, Frederick Ashton, George Frederic Cannons, Gillian Lynne, Glyndebourne Festival Opera: history and repertoire, 1952–63, Helga Guitton, Henry Danton, HMS Tiptoe (P332), Ian Christie (film scholar), International Ballet, Jack Cardiff, Jacques Fath, January 17, January 1926, January 31, John Justin, Kitty Lunn, L. S. Lowry, List of actors who have played multiple roles in the same film, List of British films of 1948, List of British films of 1951, List of British films of 1955, List of dance personalities, List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1951–60), List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters, List of fantasy films of the 1950s, List of female movie actors by name: S, List of horror films of 1960, ..., List of prima ballerinas, List of redheads, List of Scottish actors, List of stage names, List of thriller films of the 1960s, Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, Ludovic Kennedy, Margot Fonteyn, Marion Stein, Miracle in the Gorbals, Moira (given name), Mona Inglesby, Ninette de Valois, Peeping Tom (film), Powell and Pressburger, September 1948, Shearer, Songs and monologues of Stanley Holloway, Stanley Holloway, Symphonic Variations (ballet), That's Dancing!, The Man Who Loved Redheads, The Red Shoes (1948 film), The Royal Ballet, The Story of Three Loves, The Tales of Hoffmann (film), United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest, Viva la Diva (Darcey Bussell and Katherine Jenkins), Warwick Braithwaite, 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards, 1926, 1926 in film, 1926 in Scotland, 1926 in the United Kingdom, 1948 in film, 1951 in film, 1955 in film, 1960 in film, 2006 in film, 2006 in Scotland, 78th Academy Awards. Expand index (41 more) »

Alan Carter (dancer)

Alan Carter (24 December 1920 – 30 June 2009), was an English ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, and company director, active in numerous countries in Europe and the Middle East.

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Anita Loos

Anita Loos (April 26, 1889 – August 18, 1981) was an American screenwriter, playwright and author, best known for her blockbuster comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

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Anton Walbrook

Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (19 November 18969 August 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook.

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Bearsden

Bearsden is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the northwestern fringe of Greater Glasgow.

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Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir

Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir is an Irish television presenter and continuity announcer, she was a familiar face of RTÉ between the late sixties and early eighties.

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Black Tights

Black Tights (1-2-3-4 ou Les Collants noirs) is a 1961 French anthology film featuring four ballet segments shot in Technirama and directed by Terence Young.

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Brigadoon (film)

Brigadoon is a 1954 American MGM musical film made in CinemaScope and Anscocolor based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

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Cab Kaye

Nii-lante Augustus Kwamlah Quaye (3 September 1921 – 13 March 2000), known professionally as Cab Kaye, was an English jazz singer and pianist of Ghanaian descent.

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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff is a 2010 documentary film that explores the work of the cinematographer Jack Cardiff.

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Cinderella (Ashton)

This version of the Cinderella ballet, using Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella music and re-choreographed by Frederick Ashton, is a comic ballet.

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Citizens Theatre

The Citizens Theatre is based in Glasgow, Scotland and is the principal producing theatre in the west of Scotland.

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Coppélia

Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: The Girl With The Enamel Eyes) is a comic ballet originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter.

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Dance in film

This is a list of movies featuring recognizable dance forms, demonstrating them, shedding light on their origin, or being the base of a plot.

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Deaths in January 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2006.

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Doris Langley Moore

Doris Langley Moore OBE (1902–1989) also known as Doris Langley-Levy Moore, was one of the first important female fashion historians.

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Dorothy Bond

Dorothy Bond (1921 20 November 1952) was an English coloratura soprano whose star shone brightly but briefly.

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Dracula Cha Cha Cha

Dracula Cha Cha Cha (re-titled Judgment of Tears in the U.S.), is an alternate history/horror novel by British writer Kim Newman.

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Dunfermline

Dunfermline (Dunfaurlin, Dùn Phàrlain) is a town and former Royal Burgh, and parish, in Fife, Scotland, on high ground from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.

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Dunfermline High School

Dunfermline High School is one of four main high schools located in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

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Edgar Evans (tenor)

Edgar Evans (9 June 191222 February 2007) was a Welsh opera singer.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1972

The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th annual Eurovision Song Contest.

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Franklin White (dancer)

Peter Franklin White (1 February 1923 – 19 May 2013) was a British ballet dancer, a principal dancer with Ballet Rambert (1939–42) and The Royal Ballet (1942-66).

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Frederic Franklin

Frederic Franklin (13 June 1914 – 4 May 2013), sometimes also called "Freddie", was a British-American ballet dancer, choreographer and director.

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Frederick Ashton

Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (17 September 190418 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer.

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George Frederic Cannons

George Cannons full name George Frederic Cannons was a Hollywood portrait photographer of the 1930s.

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Gillian Lynne

Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, DBE (née Pyrke; born 20 February 1926) is a British ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director, noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera.

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera: history and repertoire, 1952–63

This is a list of the operas performed by Glyndebourne Festival Opera during the music directorship (1952-1963) of Vittorio Gui.

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Helga Guitton

Helga Guitton (born 18 December 1942) is a German radio and television presenter.

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Henry Danton

Henry Danton (born Henry David Boileau Down; 30 March 1919) is a British dancer, teacher, and stager of classical ballet.

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HMS Tiptoe (P332)

HMS Tiptoe (pennant number P332) was a British submarine of the third group of the T class.

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Ian Christie (film scholar)

Ian Christie (born 1945) is a British film scholar.

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International Ballet

International Ballet was a British touring ballet company that operated between 1941 and 1953.

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Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff, OBE, BSC (18 September 1914 – 22 April 2009) was a British cinematographer, director and photographer.

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Jacques Fath

Jacques Fath (6 September 1912 in Maisons-Laffitte, France – 13 November 1954 in Paris, France) was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on postwar haute couture, the others being Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain.

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January 17

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January 1926

The following events occurred in January 1926.

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January 31

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John Justin

John Justin (24 November 1917 – 29 November 2002) was a British stage and film actor.

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Kitty Lunn

Kitty Lunn (born 1950) is a ballet dancer, actor, disability activist, and founder of Infinity Dance Theater, a company that features performers with disabilities.

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L. S. Lowry

Laurence Stephen Lowry (1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist.

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List of actors who have played multiple roles in the same film

This is a list of actors who have played multiple roles in the same film.

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List of British films of 1948

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1948.

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List of British films of 1951

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1951 (see 1951 in film).

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List of British films of 1955

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1955 (see 1955 in film).

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List of dance personalities

This is a partial list of people involved in dance.

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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1951–60)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.

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List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters

This list includes those who have acted as presenters of the Eurovision Song Contest, since the competitions inception in 1956.

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List of fantasy films of the 1950s

A list of fantasy films released in the 1950s.

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List of female movie actors by name: S

This is an alphabetical list of notable female movie actors with a last name that begins with the letter S.

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List of horror films of 1960

A list of horror films released in 1960.

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List of prima ballerinas

This is a list of prima ballerinas, the second highest title awarded a ballerina and quite rare.

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List of redheads

This is a list of notable people with natural red hair.

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List of Scottish actors

This article is part of the List of Scots series.

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List of stage names

This list of stage names lists names used by those in the entertainment industry, alphabetically by their stage name's surname, followed by their birth name.

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List of thriller films of the 1960s

A list of thriller films released in the 1960s.

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Los Angeles Civic Light Opera

The Los Angeles Civic Light Opera (LACLO) was an American theatre/opera company in Los Angeles, California.

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Ludovic Kennedy

Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy (3 November 191918 October 2009) was a British journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author best known for re-examining cases such as the Lindbergh kidnapping and the murder convictions of Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley, and for his role in the abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom.

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Margot Fonteyn

Dame Margot Fonteyn, DBE (18 May 191921 February 1991), stage name of Margaret Evelyn de Arias was an English ballerina.

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Marion Stein

Maria Donata Nanetta Paulina Gustava Erwina Wilhelmine Stein, CBE (18 October 19266 March 2014), known as Marion Stein, and subsequently by marriage as Marion Lascelles, Countess of Harewood, and later Marion Thorpe, was an Austrian-born British concert pianist.

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Miracle in the Gorbals

Miracle in the Gorbals (1944) is a one-act ballet choreographed by Robert Helpmann to a story by Michael Benthall, with music by Arthur Bliss.

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Moira (given name)

The name Moira is a given name of Greek origin, deriving from μοῖρα, meaning "destiny, share, fate".

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Mona Inglesby

Mona Inglesby (3 May 1918 – 6 October 2006), was a British ballet dancer, choreographer, director of the touring company International Ballet, and the person who saved the Sergeyev Collection for posterity.

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Ninette de Valois

Dame Ninette de Valois (6 June 18988 March 2001) was an Anglo-Irish dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet.

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Peeping Tom (film)

Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer.

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Powell and Pressburger

The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell (1905–1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)—together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s.

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September 1948

The following events occurred in September 1948.

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Shearer

A shearer is someone who shears, such as a cloth shearer, or a sheep shearer.

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Songs and monologues of Stanley Holloway

The English comic singer, monologist and actor, Stanley Holloway (1890–1982), had a 54-year recording career, beginning in the age of acoustic recording, and ending in the era of the stereophonic LP.

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Stanley Holloway

Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English stage and film actor, humourist, singer, poet and monologist.

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Symphonic Variations (ballet)

Symphonic Variations is a one-act ballet by Frederick Ashton set to the eponymous music (M. 46) of César Franck.

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That's Dancing!

That's Dancing! is a 1985 retrospective documentary film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that looked back at the history of dancing in film.

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The Man Who Loved Redheads

The Man Who Loved Redheads is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Moira Shearer, John Justin and Roland Culver.

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The Red Shoes (1948 film)

The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, directed, and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as The Archers.

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The Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.

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The Story of Three Loves

The Story of Three Loves (also known as Equilibrium) is a 1953 American romantic anthology film made by MGM.

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The Tales of Hoffmann (film)

The Tales of Hoffmann is a 1951 British Technicolor film adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, written, produced and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger working under the umbrella of their production company, The Archers.

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United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest

The United Kingdom has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 61 times and is one of the most successful countries to compete in the contest.

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Viva la Diva (Darcey Bussell and Katherine Jenkins)

Viva la Diva is an operatic ballet show by Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins and prima ballerina Darcey Bussell, CBE.

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Warwick Braithwaite

Henry Warwick Braithwaite (9 January 1896 – 19 January 1971) was a New Zealand-born orchestral conductor.

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13th Screen Actors Guild Awards

The 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, honoring the best in American film and television acting achievement for the year 2006, took place on January 28, 2007 and was the 11th consecutive ceremony held at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium.

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1926

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1926 in film

The following is an overview of 1926 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1926 in Scotland

Events from the year 1926 in Scotland.

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1926 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1926 in the United Kingdom.

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1948 in film

The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.

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1951 in film

The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.

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1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.

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1960 in film

The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.

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2006 in film

The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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2006 in Scotland

Events from the year 2006 in Scotland.

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78th Academy Awards

The 78th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moira_Shearer

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