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More magic than tragic - calendarlive.com
'); document.write(' '); document.write(''); document.write(''); } //--> Other classical dancers may have chosen problematic offstage partners who drastically shortened their careers (Gelsey Kirkland), unnaturally prolonged them (Margot Fonteyn) or caused them to swerve off track (Suzanne Farrell). But Shearer had a happy 55-year marriage to author and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy, and he was with her when she died — in a hospital, not like Victoria Page under the wheels of a train. Shearer came to an untimely end in more than one film besides "The Red Shoes," dancing herself to death à la Giselle in "The Story of Three Loves" (1953) and into a murderer's clutches à la "La Bayadère" in "Peeping Tom" (1960). And maybe we wanted to see her crushed in role after role as the price for all the talent and beauty she possessed. But away from the cameras, her greatest threat may well have been Ninette de Valois, founding director of England's Royal Ballet. The recent biography "Margot Fonteyn," by Meredith Daneman, reveals how often De Valois ruthlessly sabotaged the talented women on her company's roster to keep Fonteyn on top. For the company's now-historic New York debut in 1949, De Valois sent Shearer onstage in - more available