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)