DVD
Swing time
Call Number
- DVD MUSICAL (CEN)
Edition
Full screen version.
Languages
In English with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned.
Performers
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa.
Publication Information
[United States] : Turner Home Entertainment Co. ; Burbank, Ca. : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Series
Summary
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets his dancing teacher, played by Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight".
Notes
From a story by Erwin Gelsey.
DVD release of the 1936 motion picture.
Special features: commentary by John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing; new featurette "The swing of things: swing time step by step by step"; musical short "Hotel a la Swing"; classic cartoon "Bingo Crosbyana"; theatrical trailer.