Shall We Dance poster

Shall We Dance

Foot-free Fred and joyous Ginger...in their gayest, gladdest show!

7.3(126)19371h 49m2

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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  • C

    CinemaSerf

    8/22/2025

    7/10

    “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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