#swing time

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I think I was strange to my mother and to my father, a changeling belonging to neither one of them, and although this is of course true of all children, in the end — we are not our parents and they are not us — my father's children would have come to this knowledge with a certain slowness, over years... whereas I was born knowing it, I have always known it, it is a truth stamped all over my face.

Zadie Smith, Swing Time

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PART I - PART II - PART III

— Love in The Afternoon (1957) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) La Bête Humaine (1938) The Conformist (1970) The Pirate (1948) Marriage Italian Style (1964) The Devil Is a Woman (1935) Clue (1985) The Hunger (1983) Swing Time (1936)

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Rogers & Astaire

Flying Down To Rio

The Gay Divorcee

Roberta

Top Hat

Follow The Fleet

Swing Time

Shall We Dance

Carefree

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Barkleys of Broadway

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James Hall & Clara Clemont in... Swing Time!

[auldcine]

I just want to wish you good luck... and all that. And all what? What ever you want. FRED ASTAIRE and GINGER ROGERS in SWING TIME (1936)

[bodybebangin]

AFI's 100 Greatest American Films Of All Time 90. Swing Time (1936)

[citizenscreen]

My favorite Astaire-Rogers outing, George Stevens’ SWING TIME, enjoyed a limited release across the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1936.

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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Swing Time (1936) dir. George Stevens

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Ginger Rogers as Penny Carroll

Swing Time (1936)

[queer-cinephile]

our enhanced and colorized versions of this photo of actress/dancer Ginger Rogers

[quotespile]

I didn’t understand yet that the beauty was part of the boredom.

Zadie Smith, Swing Time

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Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Too Hot to Handle from Swing Time 1936

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There are far too few colour promotional stills of these two out there.

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And so it goes You two are dancing in a snow globe, 'round and 'round And he keeps the picture of you in his office downtown And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars And why I've spent my whole life tryin' to put it into words