25 Comments

1. chynnasport says:
   December 25, 2009 at 5:49 am

   there awsome dancers
2. cotepotter2008 says:
   December 25, 2009 at 6:02 am

   Hermoso vestido, baile, y bailarines sobre todo, adoro sus musicales.
3. Hoosierhorsesense says:
   December 25, 2009 at 6:52 am

   Beautiful.
   Swing Time is my favorite Fred&Ginger movie, instead of their usual ridiculously weathy upper class types they are depression era regular people scrambling to get ahead.
   The song and dance “Never Gonna Dance” / Just the Way you Look Tonite” finale is by far my favorite thing the duo ever did. I always picture Ginger in that white satin gown.
   Pure movie magic.
4. followthefleet1 says:
   December 25, 2009 at 7:00 am

   @booleanna: Ginger was really quite knowledgeable about dancing dresses. She wanted dresses that gave he freedom of movement and make her feel like spinning. This one surely does! And there’s something special and exciting about those short glimpses of her legs, that’s not possible when they are literally on display 100% of the time. And…..No cheating by overuse of the “pause” button
5. booleanna says:
   December 25, 2009 at 7:08 am

   god how i want that dress
6. take013013 says:
   December 25, 2009 at 7:59 am

   すてきですね
7. BelovedDavid says:
   December 25, 2009 at 8:32 am

   Maybe one of their best dancing scenes… no big set, no big costumes…just two people dancing. Great!

   And Eric Blore is funny as the manager.
8. elias131294 says:
   December 25, 2009 at 8:33 am

   muy bueno
9. xkamuelax says:
   December 25, 2009 at 9:27 am

   I would give anything to learn how to do this!
10. Charroar says:
    December 25, 2009 at 9:46 am

    This is so lovely.
11. tjccoupe says:
    December 25, 2009 at 10:20 am

    What a team!
12. chomsky88 says:
    December 25, 2009 at 11:10 am

    Perfection.
13. ulfy01 says:
    December 25, 2009 at 11:37 am

    Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
    – Bob Thaves
14. SoulMan381 says:
    December 25, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    i wish hollywood would make pure movieslike this again! now its just all sex and money. ginger and fred are forever!
15. chkjns says:
    December 25, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    Added to my 1936 playlist, thanks for a great video ! !
    I am playlisting songs of the past 100 years, year by year. 1950-1975 each play for an hour – working on the others. Click ‘play all’ and step back to another time . . . . . . . .
16. stormingtears says:
    December 25, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    Amazing. Usually the guy is supposed to show off the girl but here I cannot take my eyes off Fred Astaire. Is just the taps that draw attention or is just his charisma? =)
17. followthefleet1 says:
    December 25, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    Without doubt the best dancing partnership in the history of cinema! Bar none…. and by a long, long shot. The emotion elicited though their dancing is much more than the sum of two parts: 1 + 1 = 2….of most other couples. For Fred and Ginger, it’s 1 + 1 = 2,002! As Richard Jewell has said: They “‘lift us up from the burdens of our weary world” by giving us “a timeless vision of surpassing beauty and grace”. Bless them both.
18. 135yearswaiting says:
    December 25, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Definately the best ever.
19. alpham009 says:
    December 25, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire … probably the best dancing pair ever !!!!!!!
20. TheGreenTree3 says:
    December 25, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Wow she does it all in heels too!!!
21. taintofsaidin says:
    December 25, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    now this is just down right amazing!
22. gracie08ga says:
    December 25, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    this was the first dance of theirs i ever saw and its one of the best, though they are all briliant. Got me obssessed with Ginger Rogers… i like swing time more than top hat…
23. followthefleet1 says:
    December 25, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    This film is now rated #90 by TCM of the greatest films ever made, and according to Richard Jewell, the author of the RKO Story…is truly the “most wonderful film ever made”. Robert Mueller, author of “Astaire Dancing”, considers it some of the “greatest dancing in the history of the universe”; and Arlene Croce, the author of the “FA and GR Book” calls it the “miricle film of the series”….The film that should not have worked, after the incomparible “Top Hat”..but does.

    Oh…I like it too!
24. cheesenedd says:
    December 25, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    oh yes, my mistake
25. followthefleet1 says:
    December 25, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    Actually it’s Renee who looks like Ginger…and Chicago was based upon “Roxie Hart”, a great film starring Ginger from 1941.