Moira Shearer was only 21 and performing with the Sadler's Wells Ballet when she turned down the lead role in 'The Red Shoes' (1948) multiple times, concerned that a film career would harm her reputation in the ballet…
Moira Shearer The Red Shoes



The Red Shoes is a celebrated 1948 British film from the writing-directing-producing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known as The Archers.