Swing Time

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Call Number: DVD Musical Swing
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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A videodisc release of the 1936 motion picture.
Special features: commentary by John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing; new featurette "The swing of things: swing time step by step"; musical "Short hotel a la swing"; classic cartoon "Bingo Crosbyana"; theatrical trailer.
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Georges Mataxa.
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight" which won an Academy Award. Swing time, the fifth in the series of Astaire-Rogers musicals, is one of the best, due to the Jerome Kern score, the dramatic dance sequences and beautiful art direction.
DVD; Dolby Digital ; full screeen.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Fred and Ginger's best film submitted by Joan Curran on March 11, 2009, 3:46pm Considered by many to be Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers best collaboration--and that is saying a lot.
The music is by Jerome Kern including "A Fine Romance", "Pick Yourself Up", "Never Gonna Dance" and that year's Oscar winner "The Way You Look Tonight". Plot is about vaudeville dancer trying to earn money to marry his society fiancee but then falling in love with his new dance partner. Astaire dances a tribute to Bill Bojangles Robinson in a loose limbed style that pays homage to Robinson--although done in black face. Great dancing. Fun supporting cast.

Fred Astaire in blackface submitted by willow on August 19, 2015, 9:33am Fred Astaire performs a tribute to Bill "Bojangles" Robertson in blackface. Some have described this as "non-condescending blackface," but whether such a thing exists may be questioned by some viewers.