Swing Time

1936

Action / Comedy / Musical / Romance

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 93% · 30 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 14542 14.5K

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Plot summary

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky Romero.


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Fred Astaire as Lucky Garnett
Victor Moore as Pop Cardetti
Dennis O'Keefe as Dancer in 'The Way You Look Tonight' Number
Ginger Rogers as Penny Carroll
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jotix100 8 / 10

Pick yourself up with this fine romance

Any of the films in which Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared is worth a look. Each one has something that will endear it to the viewer that seeks in their films entertainment, as well as fun. "Swing Time", their 1936 film was directed by George Stevens, a distinguished American director that had a long career in Hollywood. It helps though that Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields worked in writing some of the most beautiful melodies heard in the movie.

"Swing Time" is a pretext to present the stars doing what they did best: dancing! Lucky Garnett is made to be late for his own wedding to the socialite Margaret, who contrary to what one expects is forgiving and accepts her boyfriend's excuses. Garnett has to prove his luck, where else?, but in New York. Accompanied by Pop Cardette, they embark in an adventure to try to raise cash and fulfill his promise to Margaret's father.

Fate intervenes in the person of the beautiful Penny. She's a dancing instructor who we first see being cheated out of a quarter by Pop and Lucky. Later they follow her to the studio where Lucky goes to receive a dancing lesson! We know what comes after that. Penny and Lucky were made for one another and it will take the rest of the movie for they to realize this fact and for us to watch some amazing production numbers.

The funniest sequence has to be when Lucky, Penny, Pop and Mabel decide to take a ride to the New Amsterdam resort during a snow storm in a convertible! Not only that, but when they arrive at the inn, finding it closed, they decide to get out and walk in the thick snow without any galoshes! Oh well! The songs one hears in the film are classic standards.

"A Fine Romance", "Pick Yourself Up", "The Way You Look Tonight", "Never Gonna Dance", and others are given excellent treatment. The two excellent musical numbers, "Bojangles' Harlem" and "Swing Time Waltz", show the talent of Mr. Astaire, in the first one, and of Ms. Rogers and Mr. Astaire in the second.

Fred Astaire is always good doing no matter what he does in this film. Ginger Rogers is also appealing as the object of Mr. Astaire's attentions. Victor Moore as Pop, is not as funny as perhaps the film makers wanted him to be, but Helen Broderick, as Mabel was excellent. Eric Blore, Betty Furness and Georges Metaxa and the rest of the cast do their best to support the principals.

This film is a joy to watch thanks to Mr. Astaire and Ms. Rogers under Mr. Stevens' direction.

Reviewed by MartinHafer 9 / 10

very familiar material deftly handled

The films of Astaire and Rogers were very formulaic. You knew they would initially hate each other but by the end they would be head-over-heels in love. In addition, you were guaranteed tons of excellent dancing and memorable songs. And yet, despite their familiarity, America loved the films and they still hold up reasonably well after all these years--mostly, I think, because the dialog and supporting cast helped elevate them to classic status. This film is once again familiar and once again, all the little RKO touches are in place. But somehow, like TOP HAT, this film manages to be just a little more entertaining and polished so it rises to the top. Both Astaire and Rogers are in top form. Support is good, though for my money I still prefer TOP HAT'S Edward Everett Horton over Victor Moore, though he is still fine as the usual bumbling sidekick. All-in-all, a wonderful film for old movie buffs, though some might be put off by the old fashioned singing.

Reviewed by bkoganbing 9 / 10

Keep That Breathless Charm

Swing Time was the second of three films that Fred Astaire did with Jerome Kern music to dance with. The others are Roberta and You Were Never Lovelier. I'd be hard pressed to argue which of these are the best since all of them contain songs that I love.

Chief among these is The Way You Look Tonight. I remember almost ten years ago my cousin got married and selected this as his wedding song. Mind you this young man listened previously to the music of folks like Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot. But as he danced that first dance with his new wife I thought to myself, has your taste in music ever improved.

The rest of the score from Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields ain't too shabby either. The Way You Look Tonight won the third Oscar granted for Best Song from a motion picture. But the rest of the score included A Fine Romance, Pick Yourself Up, Never Gonna Dance and Bojangles of Harlem. Any one of them could have been an Oscar winner.

Bojangles of Harlem gave Swing Time a unique distinction in that it's the only film where blackface is used and you don't have to be ashamed of it now. Because in this case blackface was an homage from one master of the dance to another. I'm sure Bill Robinson must have loved what Fred Astaire did in that number as did everyone else.

The usual fluffy nonsensical plot that characterized most of the Astaire/Rogers films is used here. Astaire loses the money he was supposed to get married to Betty Furness on. So he and sidekick Victor Moore hop a freight train to New York to earn the money. My favorite memory of Swing Time is Astaire in top hat and tails hopping a freight train and then getting off in New York.

Of course Fred accidentally as he always does, meets Ginger Rogers who wouldn't you know it, is a dance instructor. Even though orchestra leader Georges Metaxa is involved with her in the same way Furness is with Astaire, nobody's keeping Fred and Ginger apart for long.

Swing Time is a wonderful way to learn about the class and elegance that was Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and the wonderful melodies that Jerome Kern left us. And this review is dedicated to Sam Lucyshyn and the former Rebecca Miller who started married life to the strains of America's dance king and greatest melody master.

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