What is Swing Time/Follow the Fleet about?

75th Anniversary! SWING TIME, 1936, Warner Bros., 103 min. Dir. George Stevens. Fred Astaire plays "Lucky" Garnett, a bandleader who swears off the life of a hoofer for a more "respectable" future with his girl-next-door fiancée and her overbearing father-in-law. After his band-mate buddies sabotage the wedding, Fred heads for the Big Apple and meets cute with Ginger Rogers, and soon these two are dancing their way to movie musical heaven. FOLLOW THE FLEET, 1936, Warner Bros., 110 min. Dir. Mark Sandrich. A Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers European opus, this time with Astaire as a sailor on shore leave and Rogers as the dance hall hostess he romances.

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What is Swing Time/Follow the Fleet about?: 75th Anniversary! SWING TIME, 1936, Warner Bros., 103 min. Dir. George Stevens. Fred Astaire plays "Lucky" Garnett, a bandleader who swears off the life of a hoofer for a more "respectable" future with his girl-next-door fiancée and her overbearing father-in-law. After his band-mate buddies sabotage the wedding, Fred heads for the Big Apple and meets cute with Ginger Rogers, and soon these two are dancing their way to movie musical heaven.

FOLLOW THE FLEET, 1936, Warner Bros., 110 min. Dir. Mark Sandrich. A Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers European opus, this time with Astaire as a sailor on shore leave and Rogers as the dance hall hostess he romances.