

Shall We Dance
Foot-free Fred and joyous Ginger...in their gayest, gladdest show!
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $991K
- Box office
- $2.2M
- Language
- English
- newspaper
- dancing
- ballet dancer
- musical
- scandal
- singing
- black and white
- manhattan, new york city
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNRBaltimore, Maryland29 Apr 1937
- TheatricalNR7 May 1937
- PhysicalNRDVD16 Aug 2005
BrazilBR
- PhysicalLVHS / DVD28 Sept 2005
ItalyIT
- Theatrical27 Oct 1937
SpainES
- TheatricalA17 Nov 1939
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Shall We Dance was released on 7 May 1937.
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CinemaSerf
8/22/2025
“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 litt…
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