Dame Ninette DE VALOIS DBE (1898-2001)

Ninette de Valois This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 253
  • Subject No: 253
  • Broadcast date: Thu 9 Apr 1964
  • Broadcast time: 8.50-9.15pm
  • Recorded: Sun 5 Apr 1964
  • Venue: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
  • Series: 9
  • Edition: 27

on the guest list...

  • Robert Helpmann
  • Phyllis Bedells
  • Jean Bedells
  • Jennifer Bedells
  • Dorothy Coxon
  • Violetta Elvin
  • Antonio Elvin
  • Sir Frederick Ashton
  • Antoinette Sibley
  • Lynn Seymour
  • Merle Park
  • Dame Margot Fonteyn
  • Rudolph Nureyev
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Dame Adeline Genee
  • Alicia Markova

production team...

  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
  • with thanks to Anna Meadmore, curator of The Royal Ballet's White Lodge Museum, for her contribution to this page
related pages...

A Dancer's Life

from ballet to ballroom


The Big Red Book

the programme's icon


Alicia Markova


Interviews

Anna Meadmore, curator of The Royal Ballet's White Lodge Museum, discusses Ninette de Valois and her appearance on This Is Your Life in an exclusive interview recorded in April 2013

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Photographs of Ninette de Valois This Is Your Life - and a photograph of Ninette de Valois's big red book

Series 9 subjects

Stratford Johns | Alice Stern | Robert Boothby | Bessie Love | Joan Stanton | Harry Worth | John Dodd | Ralph Reader
Albert Guerisse | Margaret Lockwood | Franklin Day | Frederick Spencer Chapman | Thora Hird | Evelyn Bark
Madge Watson and Elsie Wood | Petula Clark | Derek McCulloch | Bert Matthews | Ted Moult | Dot Palmer | Teddy Winn
Barbara Mullen | Paul Burrough | Sydney Scroggie | Ninette de Valois | Dominique Pire | Olivia de Havilland | Mary Hawkins