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1 1 6 P E R S P E C T I V E | J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 1 9 RESHOOTS B Y N I K K I R U D L O F F, A S S O C I A T E E D I T O R Swing Time is a 1936 American RKO musical comedy film. Lucky (Fred Astaire) is a dancer and gambler who travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée. When Lucky meets the beautiful dance teacher Penny (Ginger Rogers), however, his priorities soon change. Initially, the working titles for the film were I Won't Dance and Never Gonna Dance, but studio executives worried that no one would come see a musical where no one danced, and the title was changed. The sketch above of the New Amsterdam Hotel is signed by Chas. Ohmann. Charles Ohmann worked as an illustrator in the film industry for over twenty years, and his credits include work on Citizen Kane. The illustration is done with charcoal and opaque watercolor on illustration board. The Production Designer of the film was the great Van Nest Polglase, best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures. He worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957 and was nominated for six Oscars for Art Direction; Citizen Kane, My Favorite Wife, Love Affair, Top Hat and The Gay Divorcee. A B A. ILLUSTRATION OF THE NEW AMSTERDAM HOTEL IN SWING TIME. C O U RT E S Y O F T H E M A R G A R E T H E R R I C K L I B R A RY, A . M . P. A . S. B. A FRAME FROM THE 1936 MOVIE SWING TIME. LUCKY, PENNY AND TWO FRIENDS PULL UP TO THE NEW AMSTERDAM HOTEL. C. FRED ASTAIRE AND GINGER ROGERS AFTER ARRIVING TO THE HOTEL. C