A Shine on Your Shoes

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"A Shine on Your Shoes" is a lively popular song from the 1930s, best known today for its memorable performance in the classic MGM musical film *The Band Wagon*.

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A Shine on Your Shoes canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf popular song
song
associatedPerformer Fred Astaire
associatedPeriod pre-World War II American popular music
associatedWith Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz song catalog
composer Arthur Schwartz
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
era Hollywood musicals
surface form: Golden Age of Hollywood musicals
featuredInFilm The Band Wagon
filmStudio MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
genre popular music
hasTheme cheerfulness
everyday life
optimism
hasTitleCharacterString A Shine on Your Shoes self-link
language English
lyricist Howard Dietz
lyricsBy Howard Dietz
medium film music
musicalFilmGenreContext backstage musical
musicBy Arthur Schwartz
notabilityReason memorable performance in The Band Wagon
notablePerformerInFilm Fred Astaire
originalMedium stage and screen
performanceTypeInFilm song-and-dance number
publicationDecade 1930s
styleDescriptor lively
upbeat
usedAs showpiece dance number

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The Band Wagon notableSong A Shine on Your Shoes
Arthur Schwartz notableWork A Shine on Your Shoes
A Shine on Your Shoes hasTitleCharacterString A Shine on Your Shoes self-link