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

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

Adaptation edit

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 edit

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

Bibliography edit

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