The Men in Her Life (1941)

6.7/10 • 89 min • Drama

Overview

A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.

Cast

Loretta Young

Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley

Conrad Veidt

Stanislas Rosing

Dean Jagger

Eugenie Leontovich

Shepperd Strudwick

Otto Kruger

Ann E. Todd

Rose

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