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Swing Time is a 1936 American musical comedy film, the sixth of ten starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Directed by George Stevens for RKO, it features Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Betty Furness, Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields.
Swing Time: Directed by George Stevens. With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick. Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand.
The best of the Astaire-Rogers films is their fifth, “Swing Time” (1936), directed by George Stevens at a time when he was a king at RKO Radio Pictures (his other credits in that period included “Alice Adams” and “Gunga Din”). The plot, with its sly drolleries, is based like “Top Hat” on mistaken identities, but it's wittier and ...
Brief Synopsis. To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to fall for his dancing partner.
There, a chance encounter with the red-haired dance instructress, Penelope "Penny" Carroll, and an incredible trial lesson will pave the way for a dazzling, tap-dancing romance, and a swift rise in the town's sizzling nightlife. However, Garnett has some loose ends to tie up.
Jul 23, 2007 · In this Swing Time clip, Lucky, Astaire, saves Penny's, Rogers, job by showing how much she has taught him. The first true dance number with the two, the other being with Fred fumbling and ...
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Dexterous and risk-taking Lucky Garnett (Fred Astaire) pursues dancing and gambling with equal verve. Engaged to the pretty Margaret Watson (Betty Furness), Lucky gets...
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Swing Time, American musical comedy film, released in 1936, that was the fifth teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It is considered by many to be their best collaborative effort. Lucky Garnett (played by Astaire) is a gambler and dancer who, after arriving late to his own wedding, finds.
Swing Time. In this irresistible musical, the legendary dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are at the pinnacle of their art as a feckless gambler and the shrewd dancing instructor in whom he more than meets his match.
