Shall We Dance (1937)

Shall We Dance brought George and Ira Gershwin to Hollywood to write for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and they gave them "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", the tomayto-tomahto duet the pair perform on roller skates, and "They Can't Take That Away from Me", which earned an Academy Award nomination. Astaire loved that song so much that he sang it to Rogers again twelve years later in The Barkleys of Broadway, their final film together. He plays an American ballet star billed as "Petrov", a running joke on the Russian names dancers once adopted to be taken seriously. George Gershwin died in July 1937, only weeks after the film opened, at the age of 38.

This original 1937 US One Sheet comes from the height of the Astaire and Rogers partnership. RKO paper from the 1930s is scarce in any condition, and this example has been linen-backed.

• Year: 1937
• Nationality: United States
• Condition: Linen-backed
• Type: Original US One Sheet
• Size: 27 x 41 inches
• Product Code: T5539