Film and Television
Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev starred together in a colour film of Swan Lake in 1967. Under the guidance of the noted director Paul Czinner, they also filmed their famous version of Romeo and Juliet in 1966.
Fonteyn had appeared with Michael Somes in a live U.S. television colour production of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty (1955), for the anthology series Producers' Showcase, on NBC. This production has been preserved on black-and-white kinescope, and released on DVD. Fonteyn starred with Somes in a 1958 British TV production of The Nutcracker. (This is not to be confused with the live U.S. television production telecast by CBS on Playhouse 90.)
The BBC made a film about Fonteyn in 2009, based on Daneman's biography and starring Anne-Marie Duff as the ballerina. It aired on 30 November 2009.
Tony Palmer made a documentary about Fonteyn, titled simply "Margot" (2005). It includes interviews with Nureyev, Frekerick Ashton, Roland Petit, Ninette de Valois, Robert Helpman, Lynn Seymour, Fonteyn's mother and other relatives, and various members of the Arias family.
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