Swing Time (1936) is a classic Hollywood musical starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Built around elegant dance routines and timeless songs like The Way You Look Tonight, the film follows two performers whose professional partnership turns into romance. One of the most iconic Astaire Rogers collaborations.

Criterion Collection

In this irresistible musical, the legendary dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are at the pinnacle of their art as a feckless gambler and the shrewd dancing instructor in whom he more than meets his match. Director George Stevens laces their romance with humor and clears the floor for the movies showstopping dance scenes, in which Astaire and Rogers take seemingly effortless flight in a virtuosic fusion of ballroom and tap styles. Buoyed by beloved songs by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern including the Oscar-winning classic The Way You Look Tonight Swing Time is an exuberant celebration of its stars chemistry, grace, and sheer joy in the act of performance.

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Roguish gambler/dancer Lucky Garnett is challenged by his fiances father to come up with $25,000 to prove hes worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Luckyll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

Audio commentary from 1986 featuring John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films

Archival interviews with performers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and choreographer Hermes Pan

New interview with George Stevens Jr.

In Full Swing, a new program on the films choreography and soundtrack featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, dance critic Brian Seibert, and Dorothy Fields biographer Deborah Grace Winer

New interview with film scholar Mia Mask on the Bojangles of Harlem numb