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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.
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.
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 othe...
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - Swing Time
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.
Feb 15, 1998 · 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 ...
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. Lucky Garnett is a member of a magic-and-dance troupe, and is also a compulsive gambler.
