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SWING TIME
December 26, 2015  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
This 1936 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical is presented tonight, by co-hosts Robert Osborne and Sally Field, as one of “The Essentials,” and it certainly is. But so is the movie that follows it, another Astaire-Rogers musical masterpiece made one year earlier: 1935’s Top Hat. So sit back, and enjoy the glamour, the music, and the unbridled talent. First up: Swing Time, in which Astaire plays a dancer who aims to impress his fiancé (Betty Furness), but ends up being much more impressed by his new dancing partner (Rogers).
 
 
 
 
 
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