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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 an American 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.
Harriet Hoctor as herself from the trailer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936). In the late 1930s, she was a dancer in a number of Hollywood movies. She appeared as herself in The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), and Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue (1938).
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's first movie together was Flying Down to Rio (1933).. Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, 9 being released by RKO Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and 1, The Barkleys of Broadway, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1949, their only Technicolor film.
"Shall We Dance?" (1951 song), a Rodgers and Hammerstein song from the musical The King and I "Shall We Dance", a 1981 song by Bram Tchaikovsky "Shall We Dance", a George and Ira Gershwin song, the finale to the 1937 film Shall We Dance
However, the actual film titles on the US film appear as simply "Shall We Dance", leading to some online sources, including IMDb, referring to it without showing the question mark. The inclusion of the question mark serves to distinguish these two films from the 1937 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Shall We Dance.
The first four bars of "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" is a song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film Shall We Dance, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as part of a celebrated dance duet on roller skates. [5]
No dance sequence follows, which was unusual for the Astaire-Rogers numbers. Astaire and Rogers did dance to it later in their last movie The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) in which they played a married couple with marital issues. The song, in the context of Shall We Dance, notes some of the things that Peter (Astaire) will miss about Linda ...
Kennedy was noticed by Ginger Rogers when she performed as a chorus girl in Shall We Dance? [3] She did some comedy dances for Rogers offstage, which impressed the other actress. [4] [5] This relationship led to her being cast as a maid in Stage Door with Rogers and Katharine Hepburn. [3] She was eventually signed onto RKO Radio. [6]