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Swing Time (1936)

NR ★ 6.9/10 103 min Romance, Comedy United States English
Director: George Stevens
Screenplay by: Allan Scott, Howard Lindsay
Story by: Erwin S. Gelsey
Lyricist: Dorothy Fields
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A glorious songburst of gaiety and laughter!

Description

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. 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.

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Top Cast

Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire Lucky Garnett
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers Penny Carrol
Victor Moore
Victor Moore Pop Cardetti
Helen Broderick
Helen Broderick Mabel Anderson
Eric Blore
Eric Blore Gordon
Betty Furness
Betty Furness Margaret Watson
Georges Metaxa
Georges Metaxa Ricky Romero
Landers Stevens
Landers Stevens Judge Watson (uncredited)

Swing Time Appears on 11 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #904
AFI’S 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
American Film Institute #90
Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #974
Metacritic Must-See Movies of All-Time (Metascore: 81+/100) Redux
Metacritic #303
Metacritics Top 250 Movies Of All Time
Metacritic #146
National Film Registry
National Film Registry #715

Critic Curated

Esquire's 16 Best Movie Musicals
Esquire #01
Indiewire's 65 Best Musical Movies Of All Time
IndieWire #19
Paste Magazines Best Movies Of The 1930s
Paste Magazine #39
Roger Eberts Great Movies
Roger Ebert #321

Temporal Era Sets

100 Maverick Movies in the Last 100 Years by Rolling Stone Magazine
FilmSite.org #45

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