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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 a Russian-imposter 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…
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George Gershwin is considered to be one of the greatest American composers of all time. Much of his fame was earned by successful blend of classical and popular music, namely jazz. The most common medium for doing so were Broadway musical, but Gershwin also worked on Hollywood musical films. One of his last works, finished shortly before his death, was the score for *Shall We Dance*, 1937 film directed by Mark Sandr…More
Even in the era of most intense globalisation huge differences in cultural norms between separate countries remained, even among countries usually associated with First World. Such differences can serve as basis for comedy and one of the better examples is *Shall We Dance?*, 1996 Japanese film written and directed by Masayuki Suo. The protagonist is Shohei Sugiyama (played by Koji Yakusho), 42-year old accountant wh…More
