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Romance! Spectacle! Music!
Meg, a young ballet student, idolizes the school's top ballerina, the shallow Ariane Bouchet. Meg is distressed when she learns visiting prima ballerina Darina rather than Bouchet will play the lead in the school's production of "Swan Lake." So on opening night, Meg arranges an accident which nearly kills Darina and ends her dancing career. As a result, Bouchet becomes a star, while Meg is torn with guilt. This is a remake of the 1937 French film "Ballerina", based on a short story by Paul Morand.Read moreLess
Meg, a young ballet student, idolizes the school's top ballerina, the shallow Ariane Bouchet. Meg is distressed when she learns visiting prima ballerina Darina rather than Bouchet will play the lead in the school's production of "Swan Lake." So on opening night, Meg arranges an accident which nearly kills Darina and ends her dancing career. As a result, Bouchet becomes a star, while Meg is torn with guilt. This is a remake of the 1937 French film "Ballerina", based on a short story by Paul Morand.
The story
Meg, a young ballet student, idolizes the school's top ballerina, the shallow Ariane Bouchet. Meg is distressed when she learns visiting prima ballerina Darina rather than Bouchet will play the lead in the school's production of "Swan Lake." So on opening night, Meg arranges an accident which nearly kills Darina and ends her dancing career. As a result, Bouchet becomes a star, while Meg is torn with guilt. This is a remake of the 1937 French film "Ballerina", based on a short story by Paul Morand.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Margaret O'Brien'Meg' Merlin
Cyd CharisseMlle. Ariane Bouchet
Karin BoothLa Darina
Danny ThomasMr. Paneros
Esther DaleOlga
Thurston HallMr. Ronsell
Harry HaydenMurphy
Elinor DonahueJosie (as Mary Eleanor Donahue)
Ruth BradyMiss Merlin
Charles BradstreetFred CarletonExplore the crew
- Director
- Henry Koster
- Writer
- Myles Connolly
- Producer
- Joe Pasternak
- Editor
- Douglass Biggs
- Director of Photography
- Robert Surtees