No Place Like Movies at Home: Shall We Dance

I can't believe that we are at movie seven of 10 of these lovely people! They are one of the biggest reasons that I have fallen in love with Classic films and I am sad that we are almost done with their impressive catalogue of movies. However, we will enjoy these last few moments that we have together with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. 

Let me introduce you to Shall We Dance.

We are introduced two half of this wonderful duo in Paris. Petrov, AKA Peter P. Peters (Astaire), is a well known ballet dancer who has a love of tap dancing. He also has a love of the beautiful Linda Keene (Rogers). He is dying to meet her and would love to one day dance with her, and marry her. However, their first meeting goes sideways when she is unimpressed with him. She wants to leave the stage and have her own life. She decides that she is going to get married, but in order to do that she had to travel back to the states via a ship. Peter's over hears her plan and books passage on the same ship going to America. He goes to let him manager know what is going on when he finds his manager talking to a former dancer with her company. However, she has a plan of her own. She is still after Peter's and doesn't intend to let him go. Peter's tell his manager to get her to leave by any means her can. Thinking that he is safe, he gets on the ship and tries to win the affections of Ms. Keene. Everything is starting to come up roses when a rumor is quickly spread that Peter's and Keene are secretly married and are expecting a baby! Come to find that old flame of Peter's was told this by the manger and she spread the rumor! She is now they have to find out how to get publicly divorced from a fake secret marriage in order to marry the original fiancée. All while trying to figure out if that is what they even want in the first place. 

When I first bought this DVD collection I watched all of these movies back to back over a few days. However, I am just now learning that many dance numbers, songs, and bits that I have loved and remembered from these movies all mushed to make me believe that they are all in the same movie. However, that is so far from the truth! There are so many of the best jokes, dances, and gags that I had somehow erased this movie from my mind. In reality this has the roller blading dance scene that I love so much. I mean who else can tap dance on skates like they can! 

I am here to say that I loved rediscovering this movie, and ashamed that I had to rediscover it.