Okay, she was first and foremost a ballet dancer (Sadlers Wells Company at age 14!), and only moved to movies later. Don’t care. Flame-haired Moira Shearer (Lady Moira to you peasants) was extraordinary.
All class, all the time.
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Indeed she was.
But did the collar match the cuffs … or vice versa?
(I only ask because I was once … many years ago … married to a beautiful ranga)
Ludovic Kennedy (later Sir Ludovic) told a lovely story about how he met Moira and it was love at first sight.
“He later remembered their meeting in 1949, when he was reluctantly persuaded by a friend to accept a complimentary ticket to a fancy dress ball held at the Lyceum ballroom in London. Shearer – who had recently become famous for her role in The Red Shoes – was presenting the prizes at the occasion, and Kennedy later recalled that “I felt a tremor run through me when I caught sight of her. She looked even lovelier than in the film”. Summoning up his courage, he approached the 23-year-old dancer and asked her to dance. She would be delighted, she told him, only “I don’t dance very well.” She was not, Kennedy revealed, a competent ballroom dancer. “
A red headed ballet dancer named Moira sounds like the love interest from a Jeeves and Wooster book.