John "Lucky" Garnett
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Swing Time is a 1936 American musical comedy film, the sixth of ten starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Directed by George Stevens for RKO, it features Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Betty Furness, Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields.
Swing Time: Directed by George Stevens. With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick. Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- George Stevens
- 1936-10-12
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - Swing Time
- 2 min
- 2.6M
- LORD Music
In this Swing Time clip, Lucky, Astaire, saves Penny's, Rogers, job by showing how much she has taught him.The first true dance number with the two, the othe...
- 2 min
- 17.9M
- PepsiPrime
Swing Time (1936) Official Trailer - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers Movie HDSubscribe to CLASSIC TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u43jDeSubscribe to TRAILERS: http://b...
- 3 min
- 45.9K
- Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
Feb 15, 1998 · The best of the Astaire-Rogers films is their fifth, “Swing Time” (1936), directed by George Stevens at a time when he was a king at RKO Radio Pictures (his other credits in that period included “Alice Adams” and “Gunga Din”). The plot, with its sly drolleries, is based like “Top Hat” on mistaken identities, but it’s wittier ...
Swing Time (1936) is often named as the best or most popular musical/romance of dancing duo Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (they only made ten films together, nine for RKO Radio Pictures in the 1930s), rivaled only by Top Hat (1935).
