Moira Shearer Overview:

Actress, Moira Shearer, was born Moira Shearer King on Jan 17, 1926 in Dunfermline, Fife. Shearer died at the age of 80 on Jan 31, 2006 in Oxford, Oxfordshire .

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Birthday of the Week: (1)

By Beth Daniels on Jan 13, 2014 From Mildred's Fatburgers

, Lady Kennedy January 17, 1926 Biography : Portrait of a DancerBy Pigeon CrowlePittman Publishing Company, 1950 "The Red Shoes (1948) ruined my career in the ballet." was a contemporary of not-yet Dame Margot Fonteyn in the Sadler's We... Read full article


Birthday of the Week: (2)

By Beth Daniels on Jan 13, 2014 From Mildred's Fatburgers

, Lady Kennedy January 17, 1926 Biography : Portrait of a DancerBy Pigeon CrowlePittman Publishing Company, 1950 "The Red Shoes (1948) ruined my career in the ballet." was a contemporary of not-yet Dame Margot Fonteyn in the Sadler's We... Read full article


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Moira Shearer Quotes:

[last lines]
Victoria Page: Julian?
Julian Craster: Yes, my darling?
Victoria Page: Take off the red shoes.


Boris Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?
[Vicky thinks for a short while]
Victoria Page: Why do you want to live?
[Lermontov is suprised at the answer]
Boris Lermontov: Well I don't know exactly why, er, but I must.
Victoria Page: That's my answer too.


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Moira Shearer Facts
When Ludovic Kennedy saw Moira Shearer in _The Red Shoes (1948)_, he said that he knew instantly that she was going to be the girl he would marry. He actively sought her out and married her two years later, in February 1950 in the Chapel Royal in London's Hampton Court Palace.

She married Ludovic Kennedy in February 1950 at the Chapel Royal in Hampton Court Palace, London.

Performed in Frederick Ashton's masterpiece "Symphonic Variations", her red hair providing vibrant contrast to blonde ballerina Pamela May and brunette Margot Fonteyn. In 1948, Shearer replaced an ailing Fonteyn in "Cinderella". Many prefer her version to that of Fonteyn's.

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