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Swing Time is the ultimate example of the Fred and Ginger paradigm.
In Swing Time [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Fred is John "Lucky" Garnett, the featured performer in a men's traveling dance troupe. When the other troupers sabotage Lucky on his wedding day [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the nuptials are cancelled. The enraged would-be father-in-law agrees to forgive Lucky if the dancer (and proud gambler) will go to New York and make $25,000, presumably to prove he'd be a dependable breadwinner.
Swing Time's All-Star Production Team
Fred was the elegantly-dressed, upbeat go-getter, usually a dancer, who's instantly charmed by the slim, sweet-faced, street-smart redhead Ginger. Boy meets girl. Boy dances with girl. Boy chases girl until she catches him.
Katharine Hepburn often is credited with the perfect summary of their appeal: "She gives him sex. He gives her class."
The broke Lucky and his pal/sidekick Pop (the bumbling Victor Moore, in a role usually reserved for master sidekick Edward Everett Horton) hop a freight to the Big Apple -- still wearing formal wedding attire.
RKO's veteran producer Pandro S. Berman oversaw production, as he did on many of the Astaire-Rogers pictures. The versatile George Stevens directed the film, taking over from Mark Sandrich, who'd helmed the three immediately preceding entries and established the basic structure and tone. Stevens exhibited just the light touch the duo required, working from a script by the prolific Howard Lindsay, this time partnered with Allan Scott.
Women could project Fred onto their partners' faces, hoping to be swept off their feet on the dance floor. Men could imagine their mates to be as gorgeous, feminine and disarmingly confident as Ginger.
But, alas, there are complications. Most involve Latin bandleader Ricky Romero (Georges Metaxa), who is Lucky's rival for Penny's affections.
Dance Sequences Sparkle
Fred and Ginger: Boy Meets Girl
On arrival, Lucky inadvertently finds romance in the form of dance school instructress Penny Carroll (Ginger). After a few silly twists and turns, they form a dance partnership.
By the time of this, their sixth movie together, that formula was getting predictable. (Overall, they appeared in nine RKO films together, but only seven are considered genuine co-starring vehicles.) But nobody in the audience really cared, because they were so winning. Audiences adored this escapist fare during the Great Depression. It helped that the leads were impeccably dressed -- often beyond their characters' stations in life -- and pretty wholesome.
Who has the upper hand for Ginger's hand? What, you need a road map?
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The superior supporting cast includes British character actor Eric Blore, who finally gets to play something other than a sarcastic butler. Here, he's Ginger's boss at the dance studio. Helen Broderick -- tough-guy actor Broderick Crawford's real-life mom -- picks up where she left off in Top Hat [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], again playing a hilarious second banana to Ginger.
The story only serves as filler for the dance sequences. But the beauty of this film is how perfectly these shared moments of choreographed desire are integrated seamlessly within the story. When Fred and Ginger break first into song, then dance, they are behaving wholly within the context of the scene and their characters' emotions.
Younger audiences may only vaguely recognize the names today. But by the mid-1930s, RKO's Fred and Ginger were superstars as universally loved as any dance (or romantic) pairing the movies ever produced.