Swing Time
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Astaire and Rogers, poetry in motion. Swing Time , 1936 might be the best of the nine RKO Astaire-Rogers musicals. The plot is paper thin—Astaire plays a gambler and dancer who must earn $25,000 in order to win a bride—but the dance numbers, choreographed by Astaire and Hermes Pan, are luminous. “Waltz in Swing Time” is an incredibly complicated routine a “syncopated...