Swing Time 1936 123movies

Watch: Swing Time 1936 123movies, Full Movie Online – Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop’s magic and dance act, and has to make $25000 to be allowed to marry her. He and Pop go to New York where they run into Penny, a dancing instructor. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted (till the end of the film at least!) by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricardo, the band leader who won’t play for them to dance together..
Plot: Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky Romero.
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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 13,844
	97% | RottenTomatoes
	91/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 185 Popularity: 6.745 | TMDB

Reviews:

Pick yourself up with this fine romance
Any of the films in which Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared is worth a look. Each one has something that will endear it to the viewer that seeks in their films entertainment, as well as fun. “Swing Time”, their 1936 film was directed by George Stevens, a distinguished American director that had a long career in Hollywood. It helps though that Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields worked in writing some of the most beautiful melodies heard in the movie.

“Swing Time” is a pretext to present the stars doing what they did best: dancing! Lucky Garnett is made to be late for his own wedding to the socialite Margaret, who contrary to what one expects is forgiving and accepts her boyfriend’s excuses. Garnett has to prove his luck, where else?, but in New York. Accompanied by Pop Cardette, they embark in an adventure to try to raise cash and fulfill his promise to Margaret’s father.

Fate intervenes in the person of the beautiful Penny. She’s a dancing instructor who we first see being cheated out of a quarter by Pop and Lucky. Later they follow her to the studio where Lucky goes to receive a dancing lesson! We know what comes after that. Penny and Lucky were made for one another and it will take the rest of the movie for they to realize this fact and for us to watch some amazing production numbers.

The funniest sequence has to be when Lucky, Penny, Pop and Mabel decide to take a ride to the New Amsterdam resort during a snow storm in a convertible! Not only that, but when they arrive at the inn, finding it closed, they decide to get out and walk in the thick snow without any galoshes! Oh well! The songs one hears in the film are classic standards.

“A Fine Romance”, “Pick Yourself Up”, “The Way You Look Tonight”, “Never Gonna Dance”, and others are given excellent treatment. The two excellent musical numbers, “Bojangles’ Harlem” and “Swing Time Waltz”, show the talent of Mr. Astaire, in the first one, and of Ms. Rogers and Mr. Astaire in the second.

Fred Astaire is always good doing no matter what he does in this film. Ginger Rogers is also appealing as the object of Mr. Astaire’s attentions. Victor Moore as Pop, is not as funny as perhaps the film makers wanted him to be, but Helen Broderick, as Mabel was excellent. Eric Blore, Betty Furness and Georges Metaxa and the rest of the cast do their best to support the principals.

This film is a joy to watch thanks to Mr. Astaire and Ms. Rogers under Mr. Stevens’ direction.

Easy to see why it was Ginger’s personal favorite…
SWING TIME just misses being the best of all the Astaire-Rogers musicals because of one factor–too much Victor Moore and too little Eric Blore. I tend to favor TOP HAT as their best collaboration because among the supporting players in that one was Edward Everett Horton and, of course, the Irving Berlin tunes were great.

This time, in SWING TIME, we’re at least spared the mistaken identity theme which ran through so many Astaire-Rogers plots. It’s a simple boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl sort of thing without wearing the patience thin and sprinkling some nice Gershwin tunes throughout.

My own favorites are “A Fine Romance”, staged among the snowflakes in a country setting, and “Never Gonna Dance” which is the most dramatic of the duo’s dancing numbers and takes place in an art deco setting that is strikingly photographed in great B&W photography.

Ginger’s eye make-up looks a little heavy but she’s pretty as a picture as the dancing instructor Eric Blore almost fires. Fred Astaire not only acquits himself with finesse on the dance floor but in the acting department as well.

Victor Moore soon gets tiresome (in a way that Edward Everett Horton did not). The plot is paper thin and Betty Furness has next to nothing to do–but in this kind of film, all fans really wanted was to watch Astaire and Rogers glide across the dance floor in intricate style–and this they do.

Ginger Rogers was told that SWING TIME did even better business at Radio City Music Hall than TOP HAT–and has declared that among all her films with Astaire, this is her own personal favorite. It’s easy to see why. Her big dance numbers with Astaire were filmed in one long, unbroken take–but since she complained of bleeding in her dance shoes you have to wonder how many takes it took to get the perfection seen here.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 886000
Revenue 2600000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director George Stevens
Writer Howard Lindsay, Allan Scott, Erwin Gelsey
Actors Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Victor System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory RKO Studio Lab, USA
Film Length 2,600 m (UK), 2,893 m (Netherlands), (12 reels) (USA)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm