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Released
1937 · FILM

Shall We Dance

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

Directed by
Mark Sandrich
Written by
Allan Scott, Ernest Pagano
Runtime
109 min
ComedyMusicalRomance
Streaming on
  • MUBI

Synopsis

Ballet star Petrov makes arrangements to travel across the Atlantic on the same ocean liner as the dancer and musical star he has developed feelings for, though they barely know each other. By the time the ship arrives in New York, a minor falsehood has spread through the rumor mill and evolved into a sensational piece of gossip—suggesting that the two celebrities are secretly married.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by William HamiltonShot by David Abel

Box Office

1937 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.2M

Budget$991K
Worldwide gross$2.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Tanz mit mirde
  • L'Entreprenant Monsieur Petrovfr
  • Voglio danzare con teit

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