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starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore directed by: George Stevens See Larger Image Used Price: $2.45 Collectible Price: $14.98 Third Party New Price: $7.50 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780780625792 Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 078062579X Label: Turner Home Ent Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Turner Home Ent Release Date: May 04, 1999 Running Time: 103 minutes Sales Rank: 12096 Studio: Turner Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: 1936 Related Items: Top Hat Shall We Dance The Gay Divorcee Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition) Cabaret see more Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: If you only had one Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film to watch, this classic musical from 1936 would be your best bet. It was the dance duo's sixth film together, and director George Stevens handled the material with as much flair behind the camera as Fred and Ginger displayed in front of it. This time out, Fred plays a gambling hoofer who's engaged to marry a young socialite (Betty Furness), but when he's late for the wedding his prospective father-in-law sends him away, demanding that he earn $25,000 before he can earn his daughter's hand in marriage. When Fred meets Ginger in a local dance studio (where he pretends to be a klutz so she can be his instructor), he's instantly smitten and the $25,000 deal becomes a moot point. Featuring six songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields (including a splendid rendition of 'The Way You Look Tonight') and some of the most elegant dance sequences ever filmed, this lightweight fluff epitomizes the jazz-age style of 1930s musicals, virtually defining the genre with graceful joie de vivre. --Jeff Shannon Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Astaire/Rogers - maybe their best film and the best DVD package "Swing Time", the 6th of the Astaire/Rogers films, is often considered their best. In this one, the farce has been replaced with a straight musical romance and the film is accordingly richer. Here are some of the highlights: - a much more 3 dimensional performance from Rogers whose makeup has been simplified and looks much better. She really benefits from the thoughtful direction of George Stevens, with whom she became romantically involved at the time. - unusual and interesting ... Read More Rating: - Not to be carried away, but this is one of the best musicals Hollywood has ever produced "Listen," says exasperated dance teacher Penny Carroll to her two-left feet customer, Lucky Garnett, "No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!" We can't help smiling because Penny is played by Ginger Rogers, and the clumsy Lucky, who saw Penny on the street and was smitten, then finagled his way to the dance studio to meet her, is Fred Astaire. But Penny's boss overhears her comment and fires her on the spot. Lucky comes to the rescue. "Now, ... Read More Rating: - Silly to Sublime -- Or Swinging-- in Seconds Okay, let's make one thing clear: the ten movies Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made, for RKO Radio Pictures, as it was then called, all have silly plots, and "Swing Time" is no exception. But they are what they are, and all there is. "Swing Time's" plot, if you can call it that, as cobbled together by Astaire's frequent writer/collaborators, Howard Lindsay and Allan Scott, revolves around cuffs on striped pants. But, as produced by Pandro S. Berman, who threw enough money at the screen ... Read More Rating: - Swing Time George Stevens's classic Astaire-Rogers entry too often takes a back seat to the prior year's "Top Hat", and shouldn't, as it's every bit as good. The dancing sequences are unmatched in the series, particularly the "Bojangles of Harlem" number, and the gossamer Kern-Fields score includes the immortal "The Way You Look Tonight", and the overlooked "Never Gonna Dance", among others. Victor Moore provides appealing comic relief, along with "Top Hat" veterans Eric Blore and Helen Broderick. One of the screen's ... Read More Rating: - La crème de la crème. You cannot go wrong with any of the Fred and Ginger movies, but this one is la crème de la crème. Why? As Eric Blore says, for the sheer heaven of the "Pick Yourself Up" number, as you watch their feet fly across the dance floor, with Fred in trademark formal attire (in the morning my dears but it fits the lighthearted plot!)and Ginger in the pert black and white knee length dress that lets you see with your very own eyes what an incredibly nimble partner she was for the incomparable ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: General - Archives - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - VHS - Video - Musicals & Performing Arts - General General - Archives - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - VHS - Video - Musicals & Performing Arts - Musicals - General Dance - Special Interests - Genres - VHS - Video - Swing Musicals - Musicals & Performing Arts - Genres - VHS - Video - Classics Musicals - Musicals & Performing Arts - Genres - VHS - Video - Romance