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February 02, 2006
Moira Shearer, 1926-2006
The star of Powell-Pressburger's The Red Shoes, dead at 80. Lewis Segal of LA Times gives obituarizing a workout: "Red hair, ivory skin, slender, supple limbs and a light but forceful attack: Moira Shearer left an afterimage like nobody else in world ballet. In the tragic finale of The Red Shoes—the 1948 film that made her an international star as the brilliant, suicidal ballerina Victoria Page—it's easy to summon up her luminous persona in the empty spotlight that we see retracing the path of her choreography... Her films make her an emblem of madness and death: the fatally obsessive broken blossom of ballet. But those who sampled the full range of her artistry won't forget the way she could make every step or speech or moment of stillness shine for all to see." [More at the link.]
Posted by pride at February 2, 2006 01:32 PM
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