Swing Time
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
Director: George Stevens
Writer: Howard Lindsay, Allan Scott
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
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.
Trivia
- Initially, the working titles for the film were I Won't Dance and Never Gonna Dance, but studio executives worried that no one would come see a musical in which no one danced, so the title was changed.
- Pick Yourself Up was also considered as a title, as were 15 other possibilities.
- Erwin Gelsey's original screen story was purchased by RKO and, in November 1935, Gelsey was hired to adapt the story.
Filming Locations
- The New York street scenes were shot on Paramount's back lot, the train station interiors and exteriors at the Los Angeles Santa Fe Railroad Station, and the freight yard scene was shot in downtown Los Angeles.
Previous Showings
22 Runs • 14 Festivals
Original Billings: 1 run (October 18, 1936)
Original Run: October 18, 1936 (Sunday - Tuesday)
All runs on record (22):
- October 18, 1936 (Sunday - Tuesday)Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- July 10 - 14, 1987w/ Top Hat
- June 8 - 10, 1990w/ Roberta
- January 16 - 20, 1993w/ Roberta
- August 10 - 11, 1995w/ The Major and the Minor
- October 11 - 13, 1996w/ Alice Adams
- March 26 - 29, 1998Fred Astaire ~ Silent Movie Saturdaysw/ Roberta
- August 25 - 27, 1999summer99w/ The Gay Divorcee
- March 29 - 30, 2001Winter 2001w/ Top Hat
- September 14 - 20, 2002w/ Top Hat
- November 24 - 25, 2004Brandow/ You Were Never Lovelier
- March 24 - 26, 2006Winter 2006w/ Song of the Thin Man
- July 11, 2007Summer 2007 63 films in 12 weeks, including 22 films starring Fred Astairew/ Flying Down to Rio
- July 28 - 31, 2007Summer 2007 63 films in 12 weeks, including 22 films starring Fred Astairew/ Midnight
- August 14 - 17, 2009Summer 2009w/ Bachelor Mother
- November 22 - 23, 200920th Anniversary Festivalw/ Yankee Doodle Dandy
- May 4 - 6, 2011Musicalsw/ Cabin in the Sky
- July 13 - 16, 2013Summer 2013w/ Roberta
- June 4 - 6, 2014Fred Astairew/ Roberta
- December 9 - 11, 2016Astaire and Rogers plus The Marx Brothersw/ The Cocoanuts
- March 8 - 10, 2024Fred Astairew/ Roberta
- May 31 - June 1, 2025Fred Astairew/ Broadway Melody of 1940