“Don’t forget, a great impression of simplicity can only be achieved by great agony of body and spirit.” - The Red Shoes (1948)
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Florence Welch - Mario Testino photoshoot for Vogue Jan 2012
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Moira Shearer & Robert Helpmann in The Red Shoes (1948, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) (via)
“I am often asked why The Red Shoes, of all our films, became such a success in every country of the world. More than a success, it became a legend. Even today, I am constantly meeting men and women who claimed that it changed their lives. This is natural enough for women who were girls at the time, and who were growing up in countries that had been wracked by war. But my friend Ron Kitaj, who was thinking of becoming an art student at the time, has told me the same thing. ‘It changed my direction,’ he said. ‘It gave art a new meaning to me.’
These are personal reactions, but I think that the real reason why The Red Shoes was such a success was that we had all been told for ten years to go out and die for freedom and democracy, for this and for that, and now that the war was over, The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art.”
-excerpted from Michael Powell’s A Life in Movies
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- The Lion And The Lamb
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“For me she used to light up everything. She had a saintly quality, you know. She had plenty of fire too—a lot of that, but there was this other quality about her. She was such a beautiful girl to be around. That’s why she shines so. That’s why she’s a star.” ~ Fred Astaire on Rita Hayworth
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Patrick Wolf for Vanity Fair.
Photo by Tim Walker.
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