{"id":3173,"date":"2016-08-27T00:03:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T04:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2016-09-13T07:30:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T11:30:55","slug":"swing-time-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/swing-time-1936\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing Time – The Pinnacle of a Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On August 27, 1936, swarms of people lined up outside the Radio City Music Hall. They stood patiently to see the latest film of the greatest dance team the movies had created, Fred Astaire<\/a><\/span> and Ginger Rogers<\/a><\/span>. Swing Time<\/em>, would be their sixth pairing in less than three years.<\/h4>\n

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Opening day advertisement for Swing Time. The New York Herald-Tribune 8\/27\/36<\/p><\/div>\n

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Swing Time<\/em> is musical film perfection. The terrific score by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields has left us with two lasting standards\u00a0A Fine Romance<\/em>\u00a0and \u00a0The Way You Look Tonight,\u00a0<\/em>the 1936 Academy Award winner for best song. The supporting cast included past Astaire-Rogers’ series regulars Eric Blore<\/a><\/span>, as a fussy dance studio owner and Helen Broderick<\/a><\/span> as Ginger Roger’s wise cracking friend.\u00a0Musical stage veteran Victor Moore<\/a><\/span>, new to the series, played Fred Astaire’s bumbling magician side kick buddy. Also in the cast,\u00a0George Metaxa as the band leader who rivals for Ginger Rogers affection. Betty Furness, as Fred Astaire’s fianc\u00e9e and Landers Stevens the father of the jilted fianc\u00e9e and off-screen the father of the film’s director, George Stevens.<\/h4>\n

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