Swing Time

Swing Time is an American movie musical with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers from the year 1936. Served as pattern history Portrait of John Garnett of Erwin S. Gelsey. In Austria, the film was released under the title waltz from America.

Action

Lucky Garnett, a dancer who is not averse to gambling wants to finally marry his wealthy fiancée Margaret. On the way to the altar, he is however stopped by his friends, so he is late for his own wedding. When Margaret's father and wants to cancel completely the wedding, he Lucky is one last chance. This is to earn $ 25,000 in an honest way to make his good intentions to the test. Together with his friend Pop Cardetti Lucky goes to New York, where he met the dance teacher Penny Carroll. Through a misunderstanding Penny gets mad at him. Determined to apologize to her, Lucky wants to take dance lessons at Penny. This is still angry and also convinced that Lucky has no dancing talent. As her boss, Mr. Gordon, this comes to my attention, Penny is summarily dismissed. With Lucky's help but she gets back her job. Now both are to occur at a local club. As Lucky does not have a tuxedo and he does not manage to get one, he and Penny miss the audition, so Penny gets mad at him again.

To arrange a new audition with the wherewithal, Lucky goes into a casino, where he gets the chance to win $ 25,000, which had demanded Margaret's father from him. But Lucky is ultimately satisfied with less because he has fallen in love with Penny. Both may eventually occur in the club. From guilt is Lucky Penny increasingly out of the way, he has not told her about his fiancée. Together with her ​​friend Mabel invites Penny Lucky and pop one in the country where Pop promptly told her about Lucky's engagement to Margaret. Nevertheless, Penny gives in to a romance with Lucky. When Margaret arrives unexpectedly at them, Penny would rather marry the bandleader Ricky Romero. After Margaret has dissolved their engagement with Lucky, it is possible to prevent this the wedding of Penny and Ricky. Lucky and Penny finally find each other again.

Background

Swing Time was the sixth of ten common films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. After RKO Pictures had acquired the film rights to Erwin S. Gelseys template Portrait of John Garnett, Gelsey was hired in November 1935 by RKO to adapt his story together with writers Howard Lindsay and Allan Scott for the screen. However, as the additional authors Dorothy Yost and Ben Holmes Gelsey was ultimately not mentioned as a screenwriter in pre-or end credits.

The shooting took place until July 31, 1936 by May 11. The gambling in New York street scenes were filmed on the backlot of Paramount Pictures. As a backdrop to the railway station, the Santa Fe Railroad Station served in Los Angeles. Fred Astaire was preparing for almost eight weeks prior to the dance scenes. His dance routine Bojangles of Harlem, where he appeared with Black Face, was a tribute to the black tap dancer Bill Robinson, whose nickname " Bojangles of Harlem " was. Due to the technical complexity of this dance routine, the Astaire turned all last, the shooting attracted several weeks longer than the back of his previously released films. For the first time in his career, Astaire used it also Tricktechnik, had supplied the idea for the Hermes Pan. To achieve that he synchronized dancing in front of three larger than life shadow of himself, Astaire fully led the first dance in front of a white canvas on which a headlamp with a particularly strong luminosity cast its shadow. Then he danced the choreography in normal lighting before a further canvas. This image was optically combined with the tripled in the studio lab shadow. This was his second Astaire dance dancing synchronously with its shadow, projected to the inclusion of the shadow also in view Astaire. The rotation of this scene took three days to complete.

Actually the film with a dance routine to a song called It's Not in the Cards should start. The scene, however, was found to be too weak and cut after the premiere of the film on August 27, 1936 in New York's Radio City Music Hall from the movie. On January 12, 1972, the film musical was first shown on German television.

Music and dance numbers

  • Pick Yourself Up ( Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields ): sung and danced by Astaire and Rogers, also danced by Victor Moore and Helen Broderick
  • The Way You Look Tonight (Kern, Fields): sung by Fred Astaire, and later by Georges Metaxa, again at the end of Metaxa, Broderick, Moore, Astaire and Rogers
  • Waltz in Swing Time (Kern, Fields): danced by Astaire and Rogers
  • A Fine Romance (Kern, Fields): sung by Astaire and Rogers, once again at the end of Metaxa, Broderick, Moore, Astaire and Rogers
  • Bojangles of Harlem (Kern, Fields): sung by a female choir, danced by Astaire and chorus
  • Never Gonna Dance (Kern, Fields): sung by Astaire, danced by Astaire and Rogers
  • It's Not in the Cards (core): scene ultimately removed, remained melody part in the film music

Reviews

The lexicon of the International film called Swing Time as one of " the most famous and best musicals with the dancing dream couple of the 30s, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ." Cinema praised simply the " [t ] ool choreography ". Prism spoke of " one of the most beautiful musicals of the golden era of Hollywood ". The result is a film in which bezaubere next to " the great choreography and lots of imaginative gags," also the song The Way You Look Tonight.

Variety saw in the film of its time "another success for the team Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ." The film was " smart, fashionable and impressive in every way ." The songs were " as always substance and quality ". The Way You Look Tonight sting out of it. Frank S. Nugent of the New York Times found the film "naturally good". But after films like I he was dancing ' me into your heart, Navy against lovesickness and the other " a disappointment " what the music was mainly to blame. The New York Herald Tribune said that although the two main characters " in their execution never Yours " were, but the production of " inconsistent and the end definitely disappointing " is in itself.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun- Times gave Swing Time again for the " best Astaire - Rogers film". The action " with their routine jokes " Although I was like the dance of ' me into your heart, but it was " funny and clever written." The number to Never Gonna Dance fancy " perhaps the high point " in the creative life of the Astaire - Rogers team. Another highlight was Astaire's solo Bojangles of Harlem. For the film critic Leonard Maltin was Swing Time " one of the best Astaire - Rogers films." Victor Moore and Helen Broderick were " good," "unforgettable " in their supporting roles and the songs of Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. Astaire's Bojangles number was simply a " canvas classic".

Awards

At the Academy Awards in 1937 Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields won the Academy Award for Best Song for The Way You Look Tonight. Another nomination for choreographer Hermes Pan, there was for the choreography to Bojangles of Harlem. 2004, the film was inducted into the National Film Registry.

German version

The dialog Book of German dubbing editor wrote Brigitte Thiele. The dialogue director took over Eberhard Cronshagen.

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