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The Red Shoes was filmmaking team Powell and Pressburger's tenth collaboration and follow-up to 1947's Black Narcissus. It had been conceived by Powell and producer Alexander Korda in the 1930s, from whom the duo purchased the rights in 1946.
Jan 1, 2005 · Of Walbrook he wrote: "Anton conceals his humility and his warm heart behind perfect manners that shield him like suit of armor. He responds to clothing like the chameleon that changes shape and color out of sympathy with its surroundings."
Mar 23, 2015 · Boris Lermantov (Anton Walbrook) runs a leading ballet company in London. It is his life. Dancing is Victoria Page’s life. She has already danced principal parts elsewhere in the city. They meet courtesy of Victoria’s wealthy aunt and he brings her in as a kind of lady-in-waiting to the corps de ballet.
The Red Shoes. A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. 1,065 IMDb 8.1 2 h 9 min 1948. 7+. Drama · Romance · Arts, Entertainment, and Culture. Freevee (with ads)
His The Red Shoes (1948) co-star Moira Shearer recalled Walbrook was a loner on set, often wearing dark glasses and eating alone.
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Jul 19, 2010 · The Red Shoes required that Walbrook make a seemingly unsympathetic man sympathetic. And that he does, not by softening the character but by accentuating his mystery. While Powell and Pressburger saw Lermontov as one part Diaghilev and one part Korda (in his grandiose plans for his ballet), Walbrook’s own personality added something extra.
Starring Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring. THE RED SHOES, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen.
