6.6
The Paper
1994
“Foot-free Fred and joyous Ginger...in their gayest, gladdest show!”
Shall We Dance (1937)
May 7, 19371h 49mEN
7.3
121 votes
Overview
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
Director
Mark SandrichWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
French
Budget
$991K
Revenue
$2.2M
Production Companies
RKO Radio Pictures
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7.0“Just Caesar, just Napoleon, only Garbo, so just Petrov is enough... You don’t want to dance with the great Petrov? Don’t be a silly horse.” With an introduction like that, how can “Linda” (Ginger Rogers) possibly decline to dance with this clearly modest and unassuming gent (Fred Astaire) as they embark on an ocean liner bound for New York. As they travel and despite their frosty start, the pair start to bond a little, but nowhere near as much as some gossips assume and before they are halfway across the Atlantic are married! Except, well… She avails herself of the mail aeroplane to disembar…
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