Robert Helpmann
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Sir Robert Murray Helpmann was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, choreographer, and director. After early work in Australia, he moved to Britain in 1932, where he joined the Vic-Wells Ballet under i
Helpmann and his parents in 1911
Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn in Frederick Ashton's Façade
Helpmann and Fonteyn in The Sleeping Beauty, 1953
55 Days at Peking
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55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion, which took place in China in the summer o
Robert Helpmann
…production of Swan Lake for the company, with important new choreographic contributions from Ashton. In the same year he played Prince Tuan in the film 55 Days at Peking. In 1962 Peggy van Praagh, formerly of Sadler's Wells, launched a new company, the Australian Ballet, which, Sorely Walker writes, steadily gained…
Theatrical release poster by Howard Terpning