Cast: Moira Shearer

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Anton Walbrook · Moira Shearer · Marius Goring · Leonid Massine

Synopsis Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his near-obsessive guidance, young ballerina...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Karlheinz Böhm · Moira Shearer · Anna Massey · Maxine Audley

Synopsis As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up, both of his parents dead, Mark works by day as...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Moira Shearer · Leonid Massine · Robert Helpmann · Robert Rounseville

Synopsis This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. 'Michael Powell' & Emeric Pressburger (and the rest of "The Archers") work their usual magic here. The opera...

Direction Craig McCall

Cast Jack Cardiff · Martin Scorsese · Kirk Douglas · Lauren Bacall

Synopsis In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when...

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Gottfried Reinhardt

Cast Pier Angeli · Ethel Barrymore · Leslie Caron · Kirk Douglas

Synopsis Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. But has a heart condition, which means she cannot live if she does. The second story: Tommy despises his French...

Direction Harold French

Cast Moira Shearer · John Justin · Roland Culver · Gladys Cooper

Synopsis The honourable Mark St. Neots is playing with some 'chums' when he meets and is bowled over by Sylvia. As he grows older he retains his image of this beautiful young girl with the red hair. Through a chance meeting,...

Direction Gillian Lynne

Cast Christopher Gable · Moira Shearer · Albert Finney

Synopsis Commissioned to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the painter L.S. Lowry (1887-1976), this dramatic ballet celebrates the life and work of a unique artist.

Direction Terence Young

Cast Cyd Charisse · Moira Shearer · Zizi Jeanmaire · Roland Petit

Synopsis Live scenes of Paris and a continuity Narrator link together four dramatic choreographies, all by Roland Petit: Carmen (1949), La croqueuse de diamants (1950), Deuil en 24 heures (1953), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1959).