Underplayed Gems

Shall We Dance (1937)

Shall We Dance poster
Directed by
Mark Sandrich
Genre
musical film, romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 123 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A ballet dancer pretends to be Russian to get ahead, but falls for a tap dancer. The newspapers make up a story about them getting married, and then they have to deal with the consequences.

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What happens

Shall We Dance is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It is the seventh of the ten Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films. The story follows a Russian-imposter ballet dancer (Astaire) who falls in love with a tap dancer (Rogers); the tabloid press concocts a story of their marriage, after which life imitates art. George Gershwin wrote the symphonic underscore and Ira Gershwin the lyrics, for their second Hollywood musical. It inspired the 1996 Japanese-language remake of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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