( spoiler warn represent please do not read this unless you have already see this movie or do not care about spoiler . ) it an anthology of three story . in the first one and a ballet dancer be forbidden to dance because she have health problem . but when a famous ballet director ( who doesn not know about her health problem ) ask her to dance for him because he seek inspiration in order to improve his late production and she can not resist the temptation . it the story of a love that can not be fulfil . i like james mason a the ballet director and and i be impress by moira shearer dancing and although i be not generally a great fan of ballet dancing . and i love the music they use for the soundtrack and the rhapsody on a theme of paganini by sergei rachmaninoff . next in sequence there be the story of a teacher ( play by leslie caron ) who hasn not know love yet . it in the style of a fairy tale . young tommy ( play by ricky nelson ) and the boy she teach and become an adult for a few hour ( through witchcraft ) . he meet his teacher and they fall in love and but when his spell a an adult be over and their love have to end . but the teacher have change and and when she later meet another man and she might find lasting love . so it the story of a love that might be fulfil . i like both the story and the actor . the last story make the sequence complete . it the story of a love that be fulfil . i like kirk douglas very and very much while i find him very convince a pierre narval and a disillusioned and retired aerial acrobat . i also like pier angeli while she play nina burkhardt and a woman who be so disillusioned she try to commit suicide . but she be save by pierre and who later ask her to become his partner for his comeback . they be both haunt by memory of their past while nina think she be responsible for the death of her husband and and pierre probably feel he be responsible for the death of his former partner and although he say it be an accident . pierre train nina . they fall in love and but then there be a very dangerous stunt they have to perform without a safety net . i like the third story best . the others weren not as good in my opinion and but i have still give ten point because i think that somehow ( forgive the worn out phrase ) the whole be more than the sum of it three part . i think the order in which the story be tell be well choose for a sentimental love movie . i think if you like the genre and this movie be well worth a look .