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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.
- (15K)
- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- George Stevens
- 1936-10-12
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”).
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.
Trailer. To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to fall for his dancing partner in (1936). It features the music of Jerome Kern and stars Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Hosted Intro.
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Swing Time (1936) is often named as the best or most popular musical/romance of dancing duo Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (they only made ten films together, nine for RKO Radio Pictures in the 1930s), rivaled only by Top Hat (1935).