Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In 1999, Entertainment Weekly named Swing Time as one of the top 100 films, and in 2004, the film was included in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Swing Time at No. 90 on their 10th anniversary list of 100 Years...100 Movies. [1]
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Swing Time (1936 film)
Swing time is a time feel in jazz music. Swing Time may also refer to: Swing Time, a 1936 movie directed by George Stevens starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; Swing Time, a 2016 novel by Zadie Smith; Swing Time Records, a record label active in the 1940s and '50s
The song was written for the film Swing Time (1936), where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Rogers plays a dance instructor whom Astaire follows into her studio; he pretends to have "two left feet" in order to get her to dance with him. Astaire sings the verse to her and she responds with the chorus.
A Fine Romance performed on tenor sax by Jules Grandgagnage "A Fine Romance" is a popular song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, published in 1936. The song was written for the musical film, Swing Time, where it was co-introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.
Swing Time; 28 August The Gorgeous Hussy; Militiaman Bruggler ; The Texas Rangers; September 1936 1 September Tudor Rose; 2 September The General Died at Dawn; 4 September The Last of the Mohicans; The Road to Glory; 6 September My Man Godfrey; 9 September Spy of Napoleon ; 10 September Dusty Ermine (UK) 11 September The Man Who Changed His Mind
The song was nominated for the Best Song Oscar for 1936, which it lost to "Lullaby of Broadway". [5] The song spent five weeks at #1 on Your Hit Parade and was named the #1 song of 1935. [ 4 ] Astaire's 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. [ 6 ]