In French, with subtitles, Ballerina tells of Rose Souris, a young ballet student. Rose idolizes Mlle. Beaupre, the star of the ballet company. When a new Russian ballerina is given the lead in the next production, Rose contrives for her to have an "accident" to clear the way for Beaupre to play the lead. Beaupre proves unworthy of admiration, and Karine, who can no longer dance, becomes Rose's mentor.

I've lost heart in the blogging, but I'm still watching the movies. I will post the ones I watch.

This movie is a tribute to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, starring Dick Foran, Patric Knowles, and Allen Jenkins as Mounties.  Gale Page (the only Lane sister who wasn't a Lane) is one of the love interests. This is one of the few 1938 movies in Technicolor (my seventh, if I haven't lost count). Lots of shoot-outs and fist fights.

Familiar faces: Russell Simpson who played Pa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Gloria Dickson who later die in a cigarette related house fire.

There is also a German Shepherd in this movie named Rex.  I found contemporary newspaper articles claiming that this was actually Lightning, the dog who had starred a couple of years before in White Fang, but he is not listed in IMDB.

Gale Page

Russell Simpson and Gloria Dickson

Allen Jenkins