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The Ballet Girl (1916)

The Ballet Girl poster
Directed by
George Irving
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rated
NR
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young dancer navigates love and ambition in the early 1900s. The story follows her personal struggles within the constraints of society.

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What happens

The Ballet Girl is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by George Irving and starring Alice Brady, Holbrook Blinn and Robert Frazer. It is an adaptation of the 1912 novel Carnival by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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