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Top
Hat
Release date 30th August 1935
Country : USA
Running time : 101 mins
Genre : Musical
Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Screenplay by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor
Directed by Mark Sandrich
A RKO Picture
Song and dance man Jerry Travers
falls in love with Dale Tremont and woos her in the park and on the
dance floor. Dale though mistakes him for Horace Hardwicke, the
impresario helming Travers' new show.
Best of the Astaire-Rogers series of timeless musical films, this one benefits from a terrific Irving Berlin score and even the trifling mistaken identity plot is engaging in the hands of fine character actors like Eric Blore and Edward Everett Horton. What counts though is the dance numbers particularly Astaire's signature Top Hat, White Tie and Tails and the graceful, dreamy Cheek to Cheek.
The Cheek to Cheek number caused a lot of problems because of the feathers that kept floating off Ginger's dress eventually everyone of them had to be knotted to stay in place.
Songs with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin include Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, Cheek to Cheek, No Strings, The Piccolino, Isn't This A Lovely Day
Release date 30th August 1935
Country : USA
Running time : 101 mins
Genre : Musical
Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Screenplay by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor
Directed by Mark Sandrich
A RKO Picture
Best of the Astaire-Rogers series of timeless musical films, this one benefits from a terrific Irving Berlin score and even the trifling mistaken identity plot is engaging in the hands of fine character actors like Eric Blore and Edward Everett Horton. What counts though is the dance numbers particularly Astaire's signature Top Hat, White Tie and Tails and the graceful, dreamy Cheek to Cheek.
The Cheek to Cheek number caused a lot of problems because of the feathers that kept floating off Ginger's dress eventually everyone of them had to be knotted to stay in place.
Songs with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin include Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, Cheek to Cheek, No Strings, The Piccolino, Isn't This A Lovely Day
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