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Swing Time

NR
Movie
1936
1h 43m
English
Comedy, Music, Romance
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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7.4
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Swing Time (1936) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
94

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Fred Astaire
Lucky Garnett
Ginger Rogers
Penny Carrol
Victor Moore
Pop Cardetti
Helen Broderick
Mabel Anderson
Betty Furness
Margaret Watson
Georges Metaxa
Ricky Romero
Landers Stevens
Judge Watson (uncredited)
Jack Goode
Dancer (uncredited)
Gerald Hamer
Eric Lacanistram (uncredited)
Directed By: George Stevens
Written By: Howard Lindsay (Screenplay), Allan Scott (Screenplay), + 1 more

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mbody says...
8 years ago
This is one of the best Fred Astaire and Ginger Roberts films made and if you only ever watch one, it should be this one. This has some amazing dance scenes and even more than that, it is funny. The interaction between Astaire and Rogers is great. And this is the movie that debuted the famous song "the way you look tonight".
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soonertbone says...
one year ago
Really lovely, with particularly good music throughout (Never Gonna Dance, The Way You Look Tonight, Pick Yourself Up) and the dancing of course is ethereal and beyond beautiful. The plot is fun and breezy, and the whole thing adds up to a smile on your face.
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nmahoney416 says...
5 years ago
Not bad but not great. There are some decent dances and the music is pretty good. The plot was ok but felt dated.
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John Chard
5 years ago
Fine duo, fine romance, really really fine film.

Gambler and dancer John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire) is engaged to Margaret Watson, being of a care free mind, and not a little gullible, John is hopelessly late for the wedding. Margaret's father is furious and demands that John go out into the More
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