Her life is every woman's dream come true!
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.
Gregory Ratoff
Director

Loretta Young
Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley

Conrad Veidt
Stanislas Rosing

Dean Jagger
David Gibson

Eugenie Leontovich
Marie

Shepperd Strudwick
Roger Chevis

Otto Kruger
Victor

Ann E. Todd
Rose
Paul Baratoff
Manilov
Billy Ray
Nurdo (as Billy Rayes)
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The Fits63%
Ice Castles63%
Dance Academy: The Movie72%
Center Stage: On Pointe64%
Imagine72%
A Second Chance59%
Full Out72%
Circus World62%
I Believe in Unicorns64%
The Greening of Whitney Brown59%
The Lusty Men66%
Black Beauty79%
The Barefoot Contessa67%
Big Fish77%
Shadows69%
Paradise62%
Flicka68%
Eleanor the Great69%
Lady Driver63%