--- title: 'Swing Time (1936)' type: 'film' director: 'George Stevens' released: '1936-01-01' runtime_minutes: 103 genres: - 'Music' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/swing-time-1936' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028333/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Swing Time (1936) 1936 · 103 min · Music, Romance · United States ## Synopsis 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. Set mainly in New York City, the film follows a gambler and dancer, "Lucky" (Astaire), who is trying to raise money to secure his marriage when he meets a dance instructor, Penny (Rogers), and begins dancing with her; the two soon fall in love and are forced to reconcile their feelings. ## Credits - **Director:** [George Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-stevens) - **Screenplay:** [Howard Lindsay](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-lindsay), [Allan Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/allan-scott) - **Original Music Composer:** [Jerome Kern](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerome-kern) - **Producer:** [Pandro S. Berman](https://cinepixo.com/people/pandro-s-berman) - **Director of Photography:** [David Abel](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-abel) - **Editor:** [Henry Berman](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-berman) ## Cast - [Fred Astaire](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-astaire) - [Harry Bernard](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-bernard) - [Harry Bernard](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-bernard-2) - [Eric Blore](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-blore) - [Ginger Rogers](https://cinepixo.com/people/ginger-rogers) - [Pierre Watkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-watkin) - [Howard Hickman](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-hickman) - [Fern Emmett](https://cinepixo.com/people/fern-emmett) - [Helen Broderick](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-broderick) - [Victor Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-moore) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/swing-time-1936 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1191081); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.