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[Update: It was quite a pleasant surprise to be rummaging through a file of old pictures and stumble across one showing George Gershwin. Judging by the response, the “brain trust” (my nickname for the Daily Mirror readers) enjoyed it as well. The original caption information is on the jump. ] Look at all these mystery folks! Let’s get a better look …. |
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Here’s our mystery talent…. … our mystery fellow at the camera …. … but wait a moment. Who’s our mystery fellow with the pipe? … and our mystery guys standing around. |
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Ginger Rogers is singing to George (with the pipe) and Ira Gershwin and director Mark Sandrich I believe.
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Sure looks like Ginger Rogers to me!
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George Gershwin on set of Shall We Dance
(Much as I enjoy looking at these photos, the “mystery” has pretty much disappeared from movieland)
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Great shot of the filming of “Shall We Dance.” That’s Ginger Rogers, of course, with director Mark Sandrich seated in front of the camera. Next to Sandrich (with the pipe) is George Gershwin.
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The mystery fellow with the pipe looks like Busby Berkeley.
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Who IS that lovely tall drink of hot sauce? Mary??
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Well of course we have Ginger Rogers on the set of “Shall We Dance” (1937) with director Mark Sandrich and composer George Gershwin watching. I think this is the “They All Laughed” number.
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Ginger rehearsing the “They All Laughed” number from “Shall We Dance” with Gershwins present (1937).
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The mystery talent is Ginger Rogers. The production is RKO’s “Shall We Dance”. The gentleman with the pipe is George Gershwin next to his brother Ira who is wearing glasses. The gentleman in front of them with the hat on is director Mark Sandrich. The gentleman behind the camera is David Abel.
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SHALL WE DANCE 1937 with Ginger Rogers, director Mark Sandrich and cameraman David Abel shown.
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The blond is Ginger Rogers, and I think the man with the pipe clenched in his teeth is Irving Thalberg?
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No. 1 guess is the lady is Lana Turner.
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Hmmm…blonde in print dress…Ginger Rogers…
Fellow with pipe looks like George Gershwin…but these are mere guesses…
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Ginger Rogers in 1st photo
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Ginger Rogers in Shall We Dance
Might the guy with the pipe be the director, Mark Sandrich
One of the fellows must be Hermes Pan, but I don’t know which one.
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Shooting ‘Shall We Dance,’ with Ginger Rogers. So I guess the director must be Mark Sandrich.
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It’s George Gershwin, with his brother Ira Gershwin (glasses) and director Mark Sandrich (hat) watching Ginger Rogers doing the “They All Laughed” number in SHALL WE DANCE (1937) (based on the dress she’s wearing).
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Hmmm…Did Jimmy Durante smoke a pipe?
Of the three “stand around guys”, the one on the left must be related to either the late Gene Siskel (critics demeanor) or Kevin Spacey (actors’ intensity)!
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The lady is Betty Grable, I think….
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Our mystery talent is Ginger Rogers. The film is “Shall We Dance” from 1937.
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Okay, here goes. Some certainities, some educated guesses. Everybody is watching Ginger Rogers in “Shall We Dance.” From the cinematographer David Abel to Director Mark Sandrich in the director’s chair to the Gershwins, George and Ira, to choreographer Hermes Pan to Producer Pandro Berman. Also, with our main mystery star totally a non-mystery I guess I’m about 20th to identify her. She’s one of my favorites and I loved the movie.
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Ginger Rogers
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Ginger Rogers
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The pipe smoker is Ray Bolger. I don’t know the others.
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Isn’t the lady in the center of three women Ginger’s mom, Lela Emogene Owens (1891–1977).
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Fred Astair smoking pipe
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Interesting font on the typewriter used for the caption sheet, i.e. the small cap a’s and e’s.
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