The Turning Point

…as a ballet dancer in The Turning Point (1977), and as a mother superior in Agnes of God (1985). Other notable film credits included The Slender Thread (1965), Young Winston (1972), The Elephant Man (1980), ’Night, Mother (1986), and 84 Charing Cross Road

…actor in the motion pictures The Turning Point (1977), White Nights (1985), That’s Dancing! (1985), and Dancers (1987). He played a dramatic role in the Franz Kafka play Metamorphosis (1989) and appeared as a recurring love interest of lead character Carrie Bradshaw in the television series Sex and the City…

…role in the motion picture The Turning Point (1977). As a faculty member of the School of American Ballet, she staged excerpts from classical ballets for the annual workshops and staged, with Balanchine, the full Coppélia for the New York City Ballet (1974–75). She also staged ballets for other companies.

His most personal film, The Turning Point (1977), from a story by Arthur Laurents (who coproduced with Ross), focused on two former prima ballerinas—one modeled on Ross’s wife Kaye, with whom he frequently collaborated—whose lives had diverged many years before. Shirley MacLaine played a housewife whose daughter (Leslie Browne)…

…career for her family in The Turning Point (1977), for which she received her fourth Oscar nomination for best actress, and she finally won the award for her portrayal of a strong-willed compulsive mother in Terms of Endearment (1983). She later played grumpy Ouiser Boudreaux in Steel Magnolias (1989), a…