The Red Shoes

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The Red Shoes is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a girl who, when she puts on magical red shoes, cannot stop dancing. It inspired the following:

• The Red Shoes (film) - the 1948 Powell and Pressburger film

• The Red Shoes (2005 film)

• The Red Shoes (album) - by Kate Bush

• The Red Shoes (musical) - a Broadway musical composed by Jule Styne

• "The Dancing Shoes" - an attraction in the Dutch amusement park Efteling

It may also refer to:

• Chief Red Shoes - Muskogean leader, d. 1783.

• The red papal shoes worn by the pope.

• Red Shoe Diaries - a cable TV series and a spin-off 1992 film

• "Red Shoes" - a British military Rainbow Code name for the English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air missile