Dance Pretty Lady (1931)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 4M
Director : Anthony Asquith
Sinopse
During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.
When Viktor meets Gizella one day beside the lake, he takes an interest in her and begins to call on her regularly. The one passion in the life of Gizella, who is unable to speak, is dancing. When Viktor deceives her and she finds him with another woman, she moves away and begins a career as a ballerina. Later, as she is on tour performing “The Dying Swan”, the artist Glinskiy attends her performance. Glinskiy, whose own obsession is to depict death in his art, becomes fascinated by Gizella, and he is determined to use her as a model for a special project.
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
A clumsy yokel of a male weed courts a delicate female flower ballerina by trying to dance with her.
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated believes that his present wife possesses the soul of his wife in his previous wife, a ballerina.
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Ling Ai and He Jiang are young, ambitious, and in pursuit of careers imported from the West, but romantic longings and career ambitions are inevitably shaped by larger social forces.
“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after the manner of a cook, he extracts an egg as large as the hat itself. As soon as he sets this egg on the table there appears a tiny dancing girl, full of life, as big as a baby's doll, and who performs on the table some beautiful stage dances. All of a sudden she increases to the size of a ordinary woman, and jumping on the floor she delights the audience with her turns. The juggler and the dancing girl disappear in the most extraordinary way.” (Méliès Catalog)
A contemporary ballet dancer helps a pianist recover from his hand injury after causing him to fall down the stairs.
Seven-year-old Polina and her 13-year-old sister Nastia live and breathe ballet. Both of them are studying at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy in frigid Saint Petersburg. They’re currently awaiting their grades to find out if they’ve done well enough to be promoted to the next year, with Nastia lovingly guiding he little sister through the process. But in the meantime, Nastia also has to deal with the high demands that the academy places on its students. The gorgeously styled shots are sometimes calm, even clinical, and sometimes warm, lively and funny.
Em Londres, durante os bombardeios da Primeira Guerra, o oficial Roy e a bailarina Myra se conhecem na ponte de Waterloo e logo se apaixonam. Porém, Roy precisa partir para o front de batalha. Myra promete esperá-lo. Meses depois, ela recebe a notícia da morte de Roy. Desiludida e sem recursos, Myra toma uma decisão drástica. Mas será que o seu grande amor realmente morreu?
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Judy O'Brien é uma bailarina aspirante em um grupo de dança. Também está no grupo Bubbles, uma trambiqueira ousada que sempre deixa a trupe lutando pela carreira no burlesco. Quando o grupo se desfaz, Bubbles dá a Judy uma tarefa ingrata. As duas finalmente se chocam quando ambas se apaixonam pelo mesmo homem.
Nina é a bailarina principal do New York City Ballet e vê-se enredada numa teia de intriga competitiva com uma bailarina acabada de chegar à Companhia. Uma viagem excitante e por vezes aterradora através da psique de uma jovem bailarina cujo papel de Rainha dos Cisnes resulta num desempenho para o qual ela se torna assustadoramente perfeita.
Cantinflas, um "teso" mexicano que ganha a vida como ele pode, aceita um trabalho como um mágico, como um adivinho do passado, o presente e o futuro dos outros... mas é incapaz de adivinhar as dificuldades que o aguardam quando aceita substituir um príncipe oriental, posando como seu duplo. Muitos e poderosos inimigos tentarão matar o suposto príncipe. Dardos envenenados, punhais, pistolas, sequestros, todos os meios são bons para destruir o duplo infeliz do príncipe.
Tony Hunter, famoso astro do cinema musical, teme que sua carreira esteja no fim, mas seus amigos Lester e Lily escrevem um pequeno show na Broadway para ajudá-lo. Tony fica entusiasmado, e até o diretor egoísta, Jeffrey Cordova, junta-se ao projeto e lança a bailarina Gaby Gerard como protagonista. A segunda chance de Tony parece estar desaparecendo, mas ele pode conseguir muito mais do que esperava.
A man falls in love with a half-woman-half-phoenix who fell to Earth from the sky.
Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the performance. Later, she also twirls and does cartwheels.