Die kleine Ballerina

Yvonne Marsh sees Margot Fonteyn dancing on a television in a shop and is entranced. She determines to become a ballet dancer, and everyone supports her. Yet ballet school is expensive, and barriers arise. Can she overcome them?

It's a mild little story concocted to fill the Saturday matinee children's slot by Rank's organization. They had already set up the Saturday Morning Cinema Club during the War, and the continued popularity impelled production of this mild and amiable movie. It's most interesting as an opportunity to see Miss Fonteyn during her prime; she had one earlier screen appearance in 1935 as part of the corps de ballet, while her few BBC appearances are presumably lost to the ages.

Miss Marsh was the sister of the better known Jean Marsh. She died at the age of 84 in 2017.