Nora Kaye

A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.

オクラホマ・シティ。ウェイン・ロジャースと妻のディーディーとの間には長女エミリア、長男イーサン、二女ジャニナがある。この２人は元アメリカン・バレエ団のダンサーであったが、ディーディーがウェインとの恋愛中に妊娠したために正式に結婚し、バレエ団から身を退いたのだった。エミリアは容姿も美しく、父母の血をひき、バレリーナになる素質が十分であった。アメリカン・バレエ団が公演のためやってくることになり、ロジャース一家は、この公演をこぞって見に行き、ディーディーは久方ぶりの親友エマの舞台姿に感激するが、内心には複雑な思いが交錯していた。

Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.

ジェームズ・ヒルトンの名作文学に基づくミュージカルを、ピーター・オトゥール主演で映画化。教育熱心だが人気のない“チップス先生”ことアーサー・チッピングの、恋あり騒動ありの人生をみずみずしく描く。