RIP Moira Shearer

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Actress in Powell & Pressburger films, died yesterday aged 80. I loved "The Red Shoes" as a child and aspired to look just like her.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

RIP!

She was a good one.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh darn. Well I only know her in "The Red Shoes" and "Peeping Tom", but I love those performances.
Well you do learn a lot from IMDB. "She only made a handful of films, but no one who's ever seen her as the tragic ballerina of The Red Shoes (1948) will ever forget the beautiful, delicate Moira Shearer."
I may get laffed at here, but I do think she was one of the most gorgeous women ever in TRS.

http://www.silverwhistle.co.uk/cinema/CinemaPics/Vicky.jpg

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Married Ludovic Kennedy!

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Who he?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Moira Shearer's husband.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

(sorry - he's a famous journalist/writer/broadcaster type chap - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovic_Kennedy)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, thanks.

When they showed The Red Shoes on TCM a few months ago, the presenter talked about how it almost didn't get released in the US and then turned out to be a big hit- one of the top moneymakers, at least until the blockbuster era. I guess it's time to try and watch The Tales of Hoffmann again. RIP, Moira.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow--I was just watching Tales of Hoffmann last weekend with my Dad, watching Moira as Olympia, wondering what she might be up to nowadays.

Moira was a great talent. Fellow ballerina babe/Red Shoes/Hoffmann co-star Ludmilla Tcherina died recently as well, about two years ago.

RIP Moira

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Images/48_TRS/Paper4.jpg

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Not being a dance fan, TRS and Hoffmann aren't among my fave Archers (and the Shoes' melodrama makes my eyes roll), but adieu Moira.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

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