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Swing Time. (film) 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. Set mainly in New York City, the film ...
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 $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- George Stevens
- 1936-10-12
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Feb 15, 1998 · The best of the Astaire-Rogers films is their fifth, “Swing Time” (1936), directed by George Stevens at a time when he was a king at RKO Radio Pictures (his other credits in that period included “Alice Adams” and “Gunga Din”). The plot, with its sly drolleries, is based like “Top Hat” on mistaken identities, but it's wittier and more cleverly written; it could have been devised by P.G. Wodehouse.
Swing Time also marked the watershed after which Astaire's career would become much harder. While the film did well at the box office, receipts fell rapidly after the opening week, and later films ...
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- Fred Astaire
- George Stevens
- Musical, Comedy
The dancer and gambler Lucky Garnett misses his wedding with Margaret Watson due to a prank of the other performers and his future father-in-law calls off the ceremony. When Lucky arrives at his fiancée's home, he promises to make US$ 25,000 to be allowed to marry her. Lucky travels to New York by train with his friend and magician Pop ...
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Background. 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). In their dance series, this feel-good film of the Depression-era has usually been regarded as the ...
