WHEN there’s a new film involving Fred Astaire, Brunswick seems to assemble Mr. Astaire, Johnny Green, a piano, an orchestra, and then turns out a resume of the score. Comes “Swing Time, ” comes a set ...

In 1936’s Swing Time, Fred Astaire plays a degenerate gambler who stiffs his fiancée at the altar, runs off to New York, hooks up with a dancer, and then publicly humiliates her fiancé to arrive at ...