
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.

as Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley

as Stanislas Rosing

as David Gibson

as Marie

as Roger Chevis

as Victor

as Rose

as Manilov

as Nurdo (as Billy Rayes)

as Mme. Olenkova

as Lina's Dancing Partner (as Tom Ladd)