Shall we dance?

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Shall we dance? is a lightweight, farcical, and quite delightful story about people who appear to have no serious problems or thoughts. Fred Astaire plays Petrov, a supposedly Russian ballet dancer, and Linda Keene plays a revue dancer. On the liner, “Queen Anne” - bound for New York from Le Havre, they are mistakenly believed to be husband and wife, and consequently many complications arise from this mistaken premise!

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Credits

director

Mark Sandrich

producer

Pandro S. Berman

production company

RKO Radio Pictures

Duration

01:49:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1937

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302248

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - United States

Musicals

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q1576105

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United States, 1937

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