The Story of Three Loves (also known as Equilibrium) is a 1953 American Technicolor romantic anthology film made by MGM.

"The Jealous Lover" stars Moira Shearer and James Mason; "Mademoiselle" features Leslie Caron, Farley Granger, Ethel Barrymore, and Ricky Nelson; Pier Angeli and Kirk Douglas headline "Equilibrium".

The soundtrack features extended excerpts from Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, performed by the pianist Jakob Gimpel for "The Jealous Lover".

On an ocean liner, a passenger recognizes famed ballet creator Charles Coudray, and asks him politely why one of his works was never performed after its debut.

She excuses herself to change, and slips away to return home to Aunt Lydia brimming with the news of what had transpired.

She is the governess and French tutor to Thomas Clayton Campbell Jr., a bored eleven-year-old American boy left in her charge at a hotel in Rome by his absent parents.

One day, another boy dares him to visit Mrs. Hazel Pennicott, who lives next door and is reputed to be a witch.

When he wishes he were a man, she tells him to wrap a ribbon she has around his finger and recite her name at 8 pm, but she warns him that the spell will only last until midnight.

After arguing with Mademoiselle to stop her from over-mothering him and staying in on her last night in Rome, he gets in bed and evokes the spell.

In Paris, Narval saves a suicidal Nina Burkhardt after she jumps from a bridge over the Seine River.

Sensing that he was planning an escape, she had written him a letter begging him to wait, that the Allies would liberate him soon enough.

They audition for an important American, who insists they perform the climax, the "Leap of Death" (a blind jump by Nina through a screen to Narval on the trapeze), without a safety net, just as they would before a live audience.

[1] The film was nominated an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edward Carfagno, Gabriel Scognamillo, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams, Jack D.