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BALLET SHOES

Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Stars: Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, Lucy Boynton
Studio: Koch Entertainment

CAST:

Emilia Fox … Sylvia Brown
Victoria Wood … Nana
Emma Watson … Pauline Fossil
Yasmin Paige … Petrova Fossil
Lucy Boynton … Posy Fossil
Richard Griffiths … Great Uncle Matthew
Marc Warren … Mr. Simpson
Lucy Cohu … Theo Dane
Gemma Jones … Dr. Jakes
Harriet Walter … Dr. Smith
Eileen Atkins … Madame Fidolia
Heather Nicol … Winifred
Mary Stockley … Miss Jay
Teresa Churcher … Clara
Skye Bennett … Young Sylvia
Peter Bowles … Sir Donald Houghton
Don Gallagher … Mr. French
Emma Darwall-Smith … Titania (as Emma Darwall Smith)
Isabella Parriss … Cobweb
Jade Longley … Moth
Adrian Lester … Mr. Sholsky
Tim Wallers … Mr. Montague
Gresby Nash … Leopold Neville
Ebe Sievwright … Valentin Manoff
Ruth Brill … Featured Dancer
Natasha Mould … Featured Dancer
Jack Thorpe-Baker … Featured Dancer (as Jack Thorpe Baker)
Laurence Richardson … Dancer
Katie Lowe … Dancer (uncredited)

SYNOPSIS:

Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, and Lucy Boynton headline director Sandra Goldbacher’s made for television adaptation of author Noel Streatfield’s classic novel of the same name. The setting is 1930s London. Orphans Pauline (Watson), Petrova (Paige) and Posy Fossil (Boynton) have all been adopted by eccentric explorer Professor Brown (aka “Gum”), and raised as sisters by Brown’s benevolent niece Sylvia (Emilia Fox). Before the three girls get to know their adventurous adoptive father, however, Gum vanishes for over a decade. Though her faithful retainer Nana (Victoria) does her best to keep the family afloat, Sylvia simply can’t keep up with the demands of raising a family, and her health begins to deteriorate. Eventually, faced with dwindling financial resources, she decides to take in lodgers. Those who arrive as household guests include the lively academics Dr. Smith (Harriet Walter) and Dr. Jakes (Gemma Jones), plus curvy dance instructor Theo Dane (Lucy Cohu) and kind-but-pensive Mr. Simpson (Marc Warren). As the non traditional family begins to see their lives changed by these new arrivals in ways that they never anticipated, Pauline, Petrova, and Posy enroll in the local theater school and set about establishing themselves as stars of the stage. But while Pauline dreams of becoming a world famous actress and Posy longs to grow into a graceful ballerina, Petrova just wants to take to the sky as an aviator.

TRIVIA:

Emilia Fox plays the part of Sylvia Brown in this adaptation. Emilia’s mother, Joanna David, played the part of Theo Danes in the 1975 BBC adaptation of the same story.

QUOTES:

[Miss Jay meets Pauline and Winifred after their Alice auditions]
Miss Jay: Well done, you two. Right, Pauline is to play Alice
[pauses as girls gasp]
Miss Jay: and Winifred is to be engaged as understudy.
Pauline Fossil: [starts to say] What?
Winifred: [interrupts] When I finished my dance, people clapped! Nobody clapped her, there was just silence!
Miss Jay: Dance is important, but Pauline looks right for Alice.
Winifred: She looks right for everything, she always will!
[looks at Pauline and murmurs]
Winifred: Pretty face… blonde hair…
[yells]
Winifred: It’s got NOTHING, whatsoever to do with TALENT, and it’s SO UNFAIR!
[runs back up the stairs]