Film

Swing Time

1936 · 1h 43m · Romance · Comedy

A glorious songburst of gaiety and laughter!

IMDb

7.5

Rotten Tomatoes

93%

Metacritic

91

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.

Fred Astaire

Lucky Garnett

Ginger Rogers

Penny Carrol

Victor Moore

Pop Cardetti

Helen Broderick

Mabel Anderson

Eric Blore

Gordon

Betty Furness

Margaret Watson

Georges Metaxa

Ricky Romero

Landers Stevens

Judge Watson (uncredited)

Jack Goode

Dancer (uncredited)

Gerald Hamer

Eric Lacanistram (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

(uncredited)

Fern Emmett

(uncredited)

Olin Francis

(uncredited)

John Harrington

(uncredited)

Howard Hickman

(uncredited)

Frank Jenks

(uncredited)

• George StevensDirector
• Allan ScottScreenplay
• Howard LindsayScreenplay
• Erwin S. GelseyStory
• Pandro S. BermanProducer
• David AbelDirector of Photography
• Jerome KernOriginal Music Composer
• Henry BermanEditor

Swing Time (1936) Official Trailer - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers MovieSwing Time (1936) "Trailer"

Release date

August 28, 1936

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

NR

Budget

$886,000

Revenue

$2,600,000

Genres

Romance, Comedy

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