Marie Stahlbaum (George Balanchine's The Nutcracker)

Marie Stahlbaum (also known as Marie) is the deuteragonist of the 1993 musical film George Balanchine's The Nutcracker and a love interest of the Nutcracker.
She was portrayed by Jessica Lynn Cohen.
==Personality==
TBA
==Biography==
Marie was first introduced as she plays with her brother Fritz and several other children during a Christmas party. Then a man named Herr Drosselmeier arrives, and presents to the children a puppet show about dolls and mice. However, the children decide to chase Marie using the mouse puppets, frightening her. Later, Drosselmeier's nephew comes to the party, and Drosselmeier himself presents a mysterious nutcracker to Marie, who appreciates the gift. Drosselmeier's nephew hands out nuts for several children in the party to crack using the Nutcracker, but unfortunately, Fritz snatches the object from Marie and accidentally breaks it while playing. After Fritz was carried out of the party for punishment, Drosselmeier shows the heartbroken Marie a trick by using a ribbon to magically fix the doll.
After everyone goes to bed, Marie wakes up to play with the Nutcracker, but then starts dreaming as a horde of mice arrives and the Nutcracker was brought to life by the ghost of Drosselmeier. The Nutcracker leads an army of toy soldiers to battle the mice. All of a sudden, the three-headed Mouse King appears, and he and Nutcracker duel in a sword fight. Just as the Mouse King has the Nutcracker cornered, Marie intervenes and throws her slipper at him, giving the Nutcracker more time to stab the three-headed rodent. The dolls applaud the Nutcracker, as he takes the Mouse King's crown and the other mice sadly pick up their dead ruler's body to carry it away.
The Nutcracker and Marie are transported to a snowy forest with Christmas trees, and he transforms into a human prince due to his spell being broken. Then he puts the crown on Marie's head, making her his princess, and they fall in love. After that, they travel to the Land of Sweets and meet the Sugar Plum Fairy and Mother Ginger. They watch several dancers perform in the party, until Marie and the prince become the last ones to dance as all the subjects cheer on.
==Trivia==
*In all other versions of the ballet, she is known as "Clara". This version restores her original name from the book that spawned the ballet.
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