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(0)Jerome Kern
1) SwinG time
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc
Pub. Date
2005, c1936
Description
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight" which won an Academy Award. Swing time, the fifth in the series of Astaire-Rogers musicals, is one of the best, due to the Jerome Kern score, the dramatic dance sequences and beautiful art direction.
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Description
The year was 1905, the name of the show was The Earl and the Girl, the hit tune was "How'd You Like to Spoon With Me?" and it started an unknown young songwriter named Jerome Kern on the road to success. Forty years and 1,000 songs later, at the time of his death, Jerome Kern was already a legend in Tin Pan Alley. Now the fantastic life story of this gentle little "music man" is told for the first time in a full-scale biography. David Ewen has painted...