Swing Time
1936 · directed by George Stevens
- Rating
- 89/100
- Hit
- yes
- Prestige lists
- AFI 100
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. 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.
Swing Time (1936), directed by George Stevens, rates 89/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Fred Astaire
- Ginger Rogers
- Victor Moore
- Helen Broderick
- Eric Blore
- Betty Furness
- Georges Metaxa
- Landers Stevens
- Jack Goode
- Gerald Hamer
Crew
- David Abel — Director of Photography
- Henry Berman — Editor
- Jerome Kern — Original Music Composer
- Allan Scott — Screenplay
- Howard Lindsay — Screenplay
More from George Stevens
- Shane (1953) — 90/100 · hit
- I Remember Mama (1948) — 85/100 · hit
- Vivacious Lady (1938) — 82/100 · hit
- Giant (1956) — 80/100 · hit
- The Talk of the Town (1942) — 80/100 · hit
- Nazi Concentration Camps (1945) — 80/100 · hit
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