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.

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Swing Time canonical 41
Waltz in Swing Time dance number 1

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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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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