Swing Time

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If you want to watch a swell old Hollywood classic, this is the film for you! It’s funny, it’s sweet, it’s swingin’.

Fred Astaire is ‘Lucky’, a dancer and gambler who is going to New York City to make $25,000 in order to marry his sweetheart Mabel. Once he is in the city, through a coincidence, he meets the dancing instructor Penny (Ginger Rogers) and forms a dancing partnership with her. On the side he gambles his way towards his money-goal.

Of course things don’t go the way Lucky wants them to go, he falls in love with Penny. Now he has the task of telling Mabel that he won’t marry her after all and of snatching Penny out of the fingers of her new fiancé.

The two side characters, Penny’s friend Margret and Lucky’s gambling partner Pop, are absolutely hilarious. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this film. Swing Time is great entertainment for a Sunday brunch.