LC control no. | n 86041315 |
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Personal name heading | Shearer, Moira, 1926-2006 |
Variant(s) | King, Moira, 1926-2006 |
Found in | Black tights [VR] 198-?: credits (Moira Shearer) Halliwell's filmgoer's companion, 1985: p. 928 (Shearer, Moira (1926- ) (Moira King) Scottish-born ballet dancer; films) LC data base, 11-24-86 (Shearer, Moira, 1926- ) New York times WWW site, Feb. 2, 2006 (Moira Shearer; b. Moira Shearer King, Jan. 17, 1926, Dumferline, Scotland; d. Tuesday [Jan. 31, 2006], Oxford, England, aged 80; luminous star in the galaxy of British ballerinas who brought the Royal Ballet to international attention and whose dramatic portrayal as the doomed heroine of the 1948 film The red shoes was searingly impressed on generations of moviegoers) |