Swing Time Movie Songs. Release date august 27, 1936 comments date is for the new york city premiere of the film. It is considered by many to be their best collaborative effort.
With its infectious rhythm and bopping beat, you'll soon be bopping around to the grooves of swing dancing. Swing time, american musical comedy film, released in 1936, that was the fifth teaming of fred astaire and ginger rogers. Silly story (a gambler courts a gal engaged to a bandleader), vapid dialogue, ordinary direction, acting that stanislavsky or scorsese would deem subpar.
Waltz in swing time (1936) (uncredited) lyrics by dorothy fields music by jerome kern constructed and arranged by robert russell bennett sung offscreen by an unidentified chorus during the opening credits later danced by fred astaire and ginger rogers.
At some points swing time doesn't quite have the charm of top hat or follow the fleet, but it doesn't have the dull spots those films do either. They include 3 dance numbers together, 2 with the songs pick yourself up sung by ginger rogers and never gonna dance sung by fred astaire, and the other is the waltz in swing time. Kansas farm girl dorothy gale's wistful ditty in the wizard of oz led the american film institute's list of 100 best movie songs tuesday, followed by as time goes by from casablanca at no. The songs and dances are very good in this film.
