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Ballerina (novel)

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Ballerina
First US edition
AuthorEleanor Smith
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherGollancz (Britain)
Bobbs-Merrill (US)
Publication date
1932
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Ballerina is a 1932 novel by the British writer Eleanor Smith. It portrays the life of a great ballerina, and her eventual fall.[1]

Adaptation

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It was adapted into the 1941 Hollywood film The Men in Her Life directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Loretta Young and Conrad Veidt.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Vinson p.634
  2. ^ Goble p.433

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.