George Balanchine

Crew
1904-01-22
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles

#1The Kennedy Center Honors

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Self

7.4 / 10

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

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#2I Was an Adventuress

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Ballet Dancer (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
DramaCrimeRomance

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...

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#3Dark Red Roses

Movie - 1929, 2h 15m as Russian Ballet Dancer (Husband)

8.0 / 10
Drama

David Cardew, a talented sculptor, lives an idyllic life in the English countryside with his wife, Laura, and their two children. But his happiness spoils as he becomes increasingly fixated on the idea that Laura is having an affair with a young cellist, Anton Falk. The three attend a fête where David watches Anton and Laura during a ballet about brutal and violent revenge - and his obsession begins to take an even darker turn....

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#4The Nutcracker

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Drosselmeyer

7.0 / 10
FantasyMusicTV Movie

Christmas presentation of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90, featuring Tchaikovsky's ballet performed by the New York City Ballet, choreographed by George Balanchine, and conducted by Robert Irving.

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#5A Stravinsky Portrait

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Self

8.0 / 10
TV MovieDocumentaryMusic

This documentary follows composer and conductor Igor Stavinsky at his home in California, in London, and in Hamburg where he conducts an orchestra rehearsal. Includes conversations with a variety of friends and musical collaborators. Includes footage of Stravinsky and Balanchine discussing the Variations (in memoriam Aldous Huxley) and rehearsing their ballet Apollo with Suzanne Farrell.

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#6George Balanchine's Theme & Variations

Movie - 2024, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10

Live 1978 performance of ABT principal dancers Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing Balanchine's Theme and Variations choreographed to Orchestral Suite No. 3 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted for this performance by Akira Endo

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#7Stravinsky in Hollywood

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m as Self (archive footage)

5.3 / 10
Documentary

STRAVINSKY IN HOLLYWOOD explores the short-lived film career of this legendary composer, it is the story of his trials and tribulations with the Hollywood Studios, the story of an old school European artist knocking heads with the brash New World. Igor Stravinsky lived in the heart of Hollywood from 1939 until shortly before his death in 1971 - longer than in any other single place. He came expecting to find lucrative work composing for the movies. The film uses a combination of existing archival footage (some of it never before seen), interviews with Stravinsky and his assistant Robert Craft. The documentary includes scenes from several big studio films of the 40s brought together for the first time with the music which Stravinsky wrote for them.

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