Robert Osborne Intro - Shall We Dance (1937)

Shall We Dance (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Call the Whole Thing Off!

Incognito in Central Park, dodging rumors of their non-existent secret marriage, celebrity dancers Pete (Fred Astaire) and Linda (Ginger Rogers) introduce the George and Ira Gershwin song, with their famous roller-skate dance in Shall We Dance, 1937.

Shall We Dance (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Hope To Dance With Her Someday

Just-introduced Paris ballet impresario Baird (Edward Everett Horton) visits his ambivalent star Pete (Fred Astaire, his first scene), for further exposition, leading us to Linda (Ginger Rogers), whom he worships from afar, opening RKO's Shall We Dance, 1937.

Shall We Dance (1937) -- (Movie Clip) They All Laughed

After she's sung the George & Ira Gershwin tune, Linda (Ginger Rogers) goes along when the dinner crowd at a glitzy New York address demands she dance with Pete "Petrov, (Fred Astaire), amid false rumors they're secretly married, in Shall We Dance, 1937.

Shall We Dance (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Slap That Bass!

As hoofer (posing as a ballet artist) Pete, Fred Astaire performs a George & Ira Gershwin original with the crew, in a remarkable cruise ship engine room set, Van Nest Polglase the credited designer, in RKO's Shall We Dance, 1937, also starring Ginger Rogers.