My 150 Favorite Movies - #109

Swing Time (1936)

Any time Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were together onscreen, they made magic, no more so than in Swing Time. As usual, the plot is secondary to the music and dance numbers. My favorite number in a Fred Astaire movie (or most any movie, for that matter) can be found here, The Way You Look Tonight, along with A Fine Romance, and Never Gonna Dance. The usual cast of characters, including Eric Blore, and Helen Broderick, bring up the rear. Purportedly, this is Ginger Rogers personal favorite of their films together.