{"id":8066,"date":"2012-10-10T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2013-11-16T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T03:04:29","slug":"shall-we-dance-1937-mark-sandrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8066","title":{"rendered":"Shall We Dance (1937, Mark Sandrich)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elements of this movie in order of importance:<\/p>\n<p>1. Fred Astaire &#038; Ginger Rogers dancing on roller skates<br \/>\n2. Eric Blore (<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1208\">Sullivan&#8217;s valet<\/a>) as an uppity hotel manager<br \/>\n3. The awful &#8220;you say potato, I say po-tah-to&#8221; song<br \/>\n4. E. Everett Horton as Fred&#8217;s fretful manager<br \/>\n5. A bunch more Gershwin songs, not that I can remember them<br \/>\n6. The plot<\/p>\n<p>Famous ballet star Fred with a fake-Russian stage name is a closet jazz enthusiast, arranges to be on the same ocean liner as pop-musical star Ginger.  As they get to know each other, a rumor spreads through the boat then the media that they&#8217;re already married.  She is pissed at the rumors, goes home to marry her boring fiancee (there&#8217;s always a boring fiancee).  Complications arise, a fake scandal is manufactured using a Ginger-faced mannequin, and Ginger agrees to secretly marry Fred so they can get publically divorced.  But they stay together in the end.  More importantly: they dance on roller skates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elements of this movie in order of importance: 1. Fred Astaire &#038; Ginger Rogers dancing on roller skates 2. Eric Blore (Sullivan&#8217;s valet) as an uppity hotel manager 3. The awful &#8220;you say potato, I say po-tah-to&#8221; song 4. E. Everett Horton as Fred&#8217;s fretful manager 5. A bunch more Gershwin songs, not that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,762,304],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-fred-astaire","tag-ginger-rogers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}