Swing time
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight" which won an Academy Award. Swing time, the fifth in the...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English French Spanish |
| Published: | Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc., 2005, ©1936. |
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| Summary: | Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight" which won an Academy Award. Swing time, the fifth in the series of Astaire-Rogers musicals, is one of the best, due to the Jerome Kern score, the dramatic dance sequences and beautiful art direction. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1936. Special features: commentary by John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing; new featurette "The swing of things: swing time step by step"; musical "Short hotel a la swing"; classic cartoon "Bingo Crosbyana"; theatrical trailer. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; Dolby Digital. |
| Production Credits: | Photographed by David Abel ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; edited by Henry Berman ; music by Jerome Kern ; lyrics by Dorothy Fields ; musical director, Nathaniel Shilkret. |
| ISBN: | 078063988X |
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