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.
Loretta Young
as Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley
Conrad Veidt
as Stanislas Rosing
Dean Jagger
as David Gibson
Eugenie Leontovich
as Marie
Shepperd Strudwick
as Roger Chevis
Otto Kruger
as Victor
Ann E. Todd
as Rose
Paul Baratoff
as Manilov
Billy Ray
as Nurdo (as Billy Rayes)
Ludmila Toretzka
as Mme. Olenkova
Tommy Ladd
as Lina's Dancing Partner (as Tom Ladd)
