"The Way You Look To-night" is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields.
[5][6] Fields remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry.
"[7] In the movie, Astaire sang "The Way You Look To-night" to Ginger Rogers while she was washing her hair in an adjacent room.
[10] Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee recorded the song as a duet on August 19.
[11] To take advantage of the song's success, pianist Teddy Wilson brought Billie Holiday into a studio 10 weeks after the film Swing Time was released.