Shall We Dance (1937)
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"13.3. 2024 A ballet dancer and a showgirl spend rumours about being married in order to gain easy publicity. "Shall We Dance" is a very typical, shallow musical for its era: almost everyone is happy all the time, all the problems are solved easily without any true challenges, and the shiny floors and the dance numbers are playing bigger part than the irrelevant and thin plot. "
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"May May 7thShall We Dance May 8thThe Prince and the Pauper June June 11thA Day at the Races June 25thCaptains Courageous July July 16thEasy Living Topper August August 6thStella Dallas August 27thDead End"
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“Essentially a redress of Top Hat with ballet plugged into the plot contrivance and George and Ira Gershwin in place of Irving Berlin, Shall We Dance comes so close to recreating the delicate perfection of prior pairings that it’s frustrating when it falls just short. The major problem is that a bit of Shall We Dance feels stiff kneed when trying to go for a rat-a-tat-tat routine. It just seems like there’s almost too much here that the escapist dilettante nature of their best pairings feels a bit too overburdened. Something like the Russian ballet feels too highbrow for the bubble delicate world of Fred and Ginger. They’re best in parts where they’re either recognizably in an approximation of the real world, or in complete glitterati mode where their concerns and bank accounts” read more