What is Swing Time / 42nd Street about?

Name: Swing Time / 42nd Street
Genre: Comedy,Drama

SWING TIME, 1936, Warner Bros., 103 min. Dir. George Stevens. “Lucky” Garnett (Fred Astaire) is a bandleader who swears off the life of a hoofer doing the tour circuit for the more “respectable” future of life with his girl-next-door fiancé (Betty Furness) and an overbearing father-in-law (Landers Stevens). After his band mate buddies sabotage the wedding, Fred, dressed to the nines in top hat and tails, hitches a ride on a freight train headed for the Big Apple hoping to prove to his girl back home that he can make $25,000 to prove himself responsible. Once there he meets a no-nonsense dance instructor named “Penny” Carroll (Ginger Rogers), and soon enough these two are creating stardust memories made in movie musical heaven. 42ND STREET, 1933, Warner Bros., 89 min. Dir. Lloyd Bacon. An aging Broadway director puts on one last show and ably handles constant complications -- including a last-minute replacement when the star of his production breaks her ankle.

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What is Swing Time / 42nd Street about?: SWING TIME, 1936, Warner Bros., 103 min. Dir. George Stevens. “Lucky” Garnett (Fred Astaire) is a bandleader who swears off the life of a hoofer doing the tour circuit for the more “respectable” future of life with his girl-next-door fiancé (Betty Furness) and an overbearing father-in-law (Landers Stevens). After his band mate buddies sabotage the wedding, Fred, dressed to the nines in top hat and tails, hitches a ride on a freight train headed for the Big Apple hoping to prove to his girl back home that he can make $25,000 to prove himself responsible. Once there he meets a no-nonsense dance instructor named “Penny” Carroll (Ginger Rogers), and soon enough these two are creating stardust memories made in movie musical heaven.
42ND STREET, 1933, Warner Bros., 89 min. Dir. Lloyd Bacon. An aging Broadway director puts on one last show and ably handles constant complications -- including a last-minute replacement when the star of his production breaks her ankle.