In Swing Time (1936), Ginger Rogers plays Penny Carroll, a dance teacher in New York who meets Lucky Garnett, played by Fred Astaire, a gambler and dancer trying to prove he can earn a living. Directed by George Stevens, the film follows Lucky and Penny as they fall in love while trying to make a career in dance.
Swing Time is often cited as Astaire and Rogers’s finest film, and Rogers’s dancing, including the romantic Never Gonna Dance sequence, is graceful and heartfelt. She matches Astaire’s invention while also giving Penny a warm, funny personality.
