Swing Time
1936 dance musical
Swing Time is a 1936 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, widely considered among the finest of their collaborations.
The title evokes the swing era of jazz then at its peak.
The film features the song "The Way You Look Tonight," which won an Academy Award.
More generally, swing time can refer to any period dominated by swing music and dance, roughly the mid-1930s through the 1940s.
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- danceRhythmic bodily movement
- ballroom dancingFormal partnered dance styles
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- AstaireCelebrated film dancer
Rogers · Fred and Ginger · cheek to cheek · ballroom · music · 1936 · golden age · Gershwin · tempo · sway · dance floor · foxtrot · beat · Hollywood · silver screen · black and white · musical · song and dance
Swing Timetragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
Schindler's List · drama · horror film · war film · film noir
Swing Timepunk rock
Stripped-down aggressive rock genre
grunge · heavy metal · atonal music · minimalism · disco era
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