The Red Shoes
1948
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Moira Shearer King, Lady Kennedy (17 January 1926 – 31 January 2006), was an internationally renowned Scottish ballet dancer and actress. She was famous for her performances in Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffman (1951) and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960).
Overview. Born. January 17, 1926 · Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK. Died. January 31, 2006 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK (septicaemia and a urinary tract infection) Birth name. Moira Shearer King. Height. 5′ 5″ (1.65 m) Mini Bio. Moira was born the daughter of Harold Charles King, a civil engineer, in Dunfermline, Scotland.
Moira Shearer. Actress: The Red Shoes. Moira was born the daughter of Harold Charles King, a civil engineer, in Dunfermline, Scotland. She was educated at Dunfermline High School, Ndola in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and Bearsden Academy, Scotland.
Feb 2, 2006 · Moira Shearer, the flame-haired star of The Red Shoes, the most famous ballet film ever made, has died. She had just turned 80. The Scottish dancer and actress was a star of Sadler's Wells and...
Feb 2, 2006 · Moira Shearer, a luminous star in the galaxy of British ballerinas who brought the Royal Ballet to international attention and whose dramatic portrayal as the doomed heroine of the 1948 film...
Moira Shearer (born January 17, 1926, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland—died January 31, 2006, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was a Scottish ballerina and actress best known for her performance as the suicidal ballerina in the ballet film The Red Shoes (1948).
By Ben Mattison. February 02, 2006. Shearer was an important principal dancer in Sadler's Wells Ballet, later the Royal Ballet, creating roles in major works by choreographer Frederick Ashton....
Feb 2, 2006 · Moira Shearer, the flame-haired ballerina-turned-actress who became an international star in “The Red Shoes,” a poetic and sensual film that inspired generations of young dancers, died Tuesday...
Feb 1, 2006 · The Red Shoes star Moira Shearer, who has died aged 80, enjoyed three successful careers as a ballerina, an actress and, later as a spirited newspaper columnist. Her broadcaster husband Ludovic...
Feb 2, 2006 · Moira Shearer, who died on Tuesday aged 80, was a strikingly beautiful leading ballerina with the Sadler's Wells (later the Royal) Ballet; she was best known for her performance in the film The...
