Shall We Dance (1937 film)

Shall We Dance
theatrical release poster
Directed byMark Sandrich
Screenplay by
Story byLee Loeb
Harold Buchman[1]
Produced byPandro S. Berman
Starring
CinematographyDavid Abel
Joseph F. Biroc
Edited byWilliam Hamilton
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • May 7, 1937 (1937-05-07) (U.S.)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$991,000[2]
Box office$2,168,000[2]

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. George Gershwin wrote the symphonic underscore and Ira Gershwin the lyrics, for their second Hollywood musical.

  1. ^ "AFI|Catalog".
  2. ^ a b Jewel, Richard. "RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994, p. 56.