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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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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
Fred Astaire recorded "The Way You Look To-night" in Los Angeles on July 26, 1936. [10] Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee recorded the song as a duet on August 19. [11] To take advantage of the song's success, pianist Teddy Wilson brought Billie Holiday into a studio 10 weeks after the film Swing Time was released. Holiday was 21 when she ...
1936 was another profitable year for RKO, which released 39 films. The studio saw the arrival of producer Howard Hawks as well as George and Ira Gershwin . Although the studio did well overall, two of the few outstanding pictures to come out during the year were Follow the Fleet and Swing Time , which were both Astaire and Rogers vehicles.
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 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 ]
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 ...