Film Fatale will transport audiences to the 1930s with a screening of the classic rom-com musical Swing Time — featuring the dancing duo Fred and Ginger — on Saturday 12 April at Dublin’s Sugar Club. The screening will be followed by a night of vintage fashion, retro music, classic cocktails and good old-fashioned fun.
Dress up your most dashing suit or glittering vintage ensemble and put on your dancing shoes for a screening of one of the greatest dance musicals of all time.
The Film Fatale Vintage Dance Party will follow, where you can swingdance to our live band, and jitterbug to resident retro DJs The Andrews Sisters’ Brothers, who will be playing music from the film’s era as well as your favourite tunes from twenties through to the seventies.
Drink bespoke vintage cocktails, join in the conga line or sit back and watch the dancing duos on stage.
Iconic dancing duo Fred and Ginger brought a joy of performance, grace and humor to their films the made them the embodiment of early Hollywood glamour.
Swing Time is one of their most beloved pairings, in which bandleader Astaire gets cold feet on his wedding day. Astaire's bride-to-be Betty Furness will give him a second chance, providing he proves himself responsible enough to earn $25,000.
Astaire naturally tries to avoid earning that amount once he falls in love with dance instructor Ginger Rogers. Numerous complications, laughs and dance routines ensue set to the famous Jerome Kern-Dorothy Fields score includes such standards-to-be as 'Pick Yourself Up', 'A Fine Romance', 'The Way You Look Tonight', 'Never Gonna Dance' and 'Bojangles of Harlem'.
Sit back in the sumptuous surroundings of the Sugar Club, enjoy a classic signature cocktail designed especially for the night, have the Film Fatale usherettes serve you popcorn while watching the silver screen’s most enchanting couple before following in their footsteps and dancing the night away.
