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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 .
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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 ]
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.
"The Way You Look To-night" is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. [5] [6] Fields remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release ...
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
"Never Gonna Dance" is a song performed by Fred Astaire and danced with Ginger Rogers in their movie Swing Time. The lyrics were written by Dorothy Fields and the music was by Jerome Kern . This dramatic dance was performed at the end of the movie after John 'Lucky' Garnett (Astaire) finds out Penelope 'Penny' Carroll (Rogers) is engaged to ...
Initially signing with Paramount Pictures in 1930, she quickly opted out of her contract and worked for several studios, most notably for Warner Brothers in musicals 42nd Street (1933) and Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), during this time she was named one of WAMPAS Baby Stars. In 1932 Ginger co-starred with comedian Joe E. Brown in the movie, "You ...