The Red Shoes (1948)




Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann - The Red Shoes

Moira Shearer - The Red Shoes

Robert Helpmann, Ludmilla Tchérina - The Red Shoes


Léonide Massine - The Red Shoes

Moira Shearer - The Red Shoes

Moira Shearer - The Red Shoes




A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 565
Filmpost nr. 253

Books on The Red Shoes

Mark Connelly
The red shoes
London; New York, 2005

Monk Gibbon
The Red Shoes Ballet, A Critical Study
London, 1948

Books with substantial mentioning of The Red Shoes

David Thomson
Moments that made the movies
London, 2014

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller
Movies of the 40s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Danny Peary
Cult Movies, The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful
New York, 1989

Jerry Vermilye
The Great British Films
Secaucus, N.J., 1978

Books with an entry on The Red Shoes

Ivan Butler
Cinema in Britain, An illustrated Survey
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1973

Articles on The Red Shoes

Angie Errigo, The Red Shoes, Real proof that Britain's got talent..., in: Empire, nr. 242 (August), 2009 pp. 138-139

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Red Shoes

Damon Wise, A Matter of Powell and Pressburger, in: Empire, nr. 275 (May), 2012 pp. 82-91