Nini Theilade, who won wide acclaim for her dancing in the fabled 1935 film version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” then performed with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo during its tour of the United States as World War II was beginning, died on Feb. 13 in Svendborg, Denmark. She was 102.

Her death was confirmed by a spokesman for the Danish Embassy in Washington.

Ms. Theilade (pronounced TAY-laud) was performing solo recitals as young as 14. In an interview for the 2005 documentary “Ballets Russes,” she recalled how those recitals opened a big door.

“Max Reinhardt, he discovered me, so to speak,” she said, “because he saw one of these recitals, and he said, ‘Well, I don’t know anything about dancing, but this person doesn’t only dance, she acts.’ ”

Reinhardt put her in the version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that he staged in England and at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and then in the film that he and William Dieterle directed. Ms. Theilade was the lead fairy among Titania’s attendants.