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Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Swing Time
RKO Radio Pictures, 1936
This classic musical is widely considered to be the best of the dancing duo’s films together. Fred plays a gambling hoofer who meets Ginger at a dance studio. Immediately smitten, he pretends to be a klutz so she can be his dance instructor. Featuring some of the most elegant dance sequences ever filmed, Swing Time defines the genre of 1930s jazz-age musicals. As Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert writes, "…what Fred and Ginger had together, and what no other team has ever had in the same way, was a joy of performance. They were so good, and they knew they were so good, that they danced in celebration of their gifts." |
