Swing Time

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Swing Time is a classic 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, renowned for its innovative dance sequences and Jerome Kern–Dorothy Fields score.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Swing Time canonical 41
Waltz in Swing Time dance number 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf film ⓘ
musical film ⓘ
romantic comedy film ⓘ
artDirectionBy Carroll Clark ⓘ
Van Nest Polglase ⓘ
cinematographyBy David Abel ⓘ
costumeDesigner Bernard Newman ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
director George Stevens ⓘ
distributedBy RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ
editedBy Henry Berman ⓘ
featuresDanceSequence Never Gonna Dance finale ⓘ
Pick Yourself Up dance number ⓘ
Swing Time self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Waltz in Swing Time dance number
featuresSong A Fine Romance ⓘ
Never Gonna Dance ⓘ
Pick Yourself Up ⓘ
The Way You Look Tonight ⓘ
Waltz in Swing Time ⓘ
genre musical ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ
includedInList AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs ⓘ
surface form: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals
leadCharacter John "Lucky" Garnett ⓘ
Penelope "Penny" Carroll ⓘ
lyricsBy Dorothy Fields ⓘ
musicBy Jerome Kern ⓘ
notableFor Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields score ⓘ
innovative dance sequences ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
partOfSeries Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers RKO musicals ⓘ
portraysCharacter Betty Furness as Margaret Watson ⓘ
Eric Blore as Gordon ⓘ
Fred Astaire ⓘ
surface form: Fred Astaire as John "Lucky" Garnett

Ginger Rogers ⓘ
surface form: Ginger Rogers as Penelope "Penny" Carroll

Helen Broderick as Mabel Anderson ⓘ
Victor Moore as Pop Cardetti ⓘ
producer Pandro S. Berman ⓘ
productionCompany RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ
releaseDate 1936-08-27 ⓘ
releaseYear 1936 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes 103 ⓘ
screenwriter Allan Scott ⓘ
Howard Lindsay ⓘ
setInPeriod 1930s ⓘ
songWonAward The Way You Look Tonight – Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ
starring Betty Furness ⓘ
Eric Blore ⓘ
Fred Astaire ⓘ
Ginger Rogers ⓘ
Helen Broderick ⓘ
Victor Moore ⓘ
storyBy Erwin Gelsey ⓘ
title Swing Time self-link ⓘ

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Referenced by (42)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fred Astaire → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ
Ginger Rogers → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ
RKO Radio Pictures → produced → Swing Time ⓘ
Swing Time → title → Swing Time self-link ⓘ
Swing Time → featuresDanceSequence → Swing Time self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Waltz in Swing Time dance number
Shall We Dance → follows → Swing Time ⓘ
Follow the Fleet → followedBy → Swing Time ⓘ
Frederick Austerlitz → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ
Frederick → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ
subject surface form: Frederick Austerlitz
NW → followedBy → Swing Time ⓘ
George Stevens → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ
George Stevens → directed → Swing Time ⓘ
Eric Blore → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ
Erwin Gelsey → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ
Erwin Gelsey → contributedTo → Swing Time ⓘ
Van Nest Polglase → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ
Dorothy Fields → wroteLyricsFor → Swing Time ⓘ
A Fine Romance → introducedInFilm → Swing Time ⓘ
A Fine Romance → partOfSoundtrack → Swing Time ⓘ
Pick Yourself Up → firstFeaturedIn → Swing Time ⓘ
Pick Yourself Up → originalFilm → Swing Time ⓘ
Never Gonna Dance → featuredInWork → Swing Time ⓘ
Waltz in Swing Time → partOf → Swing Time ⓘ
Never Gonna Dance finale → partOf → Swing Time ⓘ
John "Lucky" Garnett → appearsIn → Swing Time ⓘ
Eric Blore as Gordon → appearsIn → Swing Time ⓘ
Hermes Pan → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ
Helen Broderick → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ
Pandro S. Berman → notableWork → Swing Time ⓘ