Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Gerd Larsen

1. Producers' Showcase (1954–1957)

90 min | Drama, Musical, Comedy

7.3

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This program aired once every fourth week, and was one of the most costly live shows of the 1950s. Many stars appeared on this show.

Stars: Cyril Ritchard, Claire Bloom, Mary Martin, David Wayne

Votes: 186

2. Romeo and Juliet (1966)

124 min | Drama, Music, Romance

7.1

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Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.

Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle

Votes: 177

3. Swan Lake (1982 TV Movie)

137 min | Fantasy, Music, Romance

8.9

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The Royal Ballet's 1980 production of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet.

Stars: Natalia Makarova, Anthony Dowell, Michael Coleman, Sandra Conley

Votes: 41

4. The Nutcracker (1985 TV Movie)

Drama, Fantasy, Music

8.4

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Although the set design and most of the costumes are remarkably like the later Royal Ballet Peter Wright productions, (2001 and 2009) many tiny details are different. While the production ... See full synopsis »

Director: John Vernon | Stars: Lesley Collier, Anthony Dowell, Michael Coleman, Julie Rose

Votes: 39

5. Romeo and Juliet (1984 TV Movie)

140 min | Drama, Romance, Music

8.8

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Performance of ballet by The Royal Ballet, recorded at Covent Garden, July 1984.

Stars: Alessandra Ferri, Wayne Eagling, David Drew, Leslie Edwards

Votes: 34

6. The Nutcracker (1968 TV Movie)

100 min | Fantasy, Music

7.9

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Director: John Vernon | Stars: Merle Park, Rudolf Nureyev, Geoffrey Cauley, Michael Coleman

Votes: 20

7. Tales from a Flying Trunk (1979)

88 min | Animation, Fantasy, Musical

7.0

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Three shorts based on Hans Christian Anderson's tales. The Kitchen, in which household objects come to life, The Little Match Girl, updated to London's East End in the 1970s, and Little Ida, with dance featuring members of the Royal Ballet

Director: Christine Edzard | Stars: Murray Melvin, Ann Firbank, Tasneem Maqsood, John Tordoff

Votes: 15

8. Producers' Showcase (1954–1957)
Episode: The Sleeping Beauty (1955)

75 min | Drama, Musical, Comedy

6.9

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Tchaikovsky's ballet, with Margot Fonteyn in the title role, presented on TV in color. Only a black-and-white kinescope of this production seems to survive.

Director: Clark Jones | Stars: David Wayne, Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Frederick Ashton

Votes: 9

9. Steps of the Ballet (1948)

24 min | Documentary, Short, Music

6.2

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Robert Helpmann explains, and dancers from the Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells troupes demonstrate, basic steps and movements of the dance as a new ballet is rehearsed and performed.

Director: Muir Mathieson | Stars: Robert Helpmann, Jeanne Artois, Michael Bayston, Arthur Benjamin

Votes: 7