Top Hat (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Fred Astaire
Jerry Travers
Ginger Rogers
Dale Tremont
Edward Everett Horton
Horace Hardwick
Erik Rhodes
Alberto Beddini
Eric Blore
Bates
Helen Broderick
Madge Hardwick
Lucille Ball
Flower Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Venice Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Leonard Mudie
Florist (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
Elevator Passenger / Hotel Guest / Dancer (uncredited)
Nick Thompson
Italian Police Officer (uncredited)
Tom Ricketts
Nervous Thackeray Club Waiter (uncredited)
Robert Adair
London Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
William A. Boardway
Club Member (uncredited)
Tex Brodus
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Phyllis Coghlan
Dancer (uncredited)
Lorinne Crawford
Dancer (uncredited)
Oliver Cross
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
Guest Leaving Elevator (uncredited)
Jack Ellison
Dancer (uncredited)
George Ford
Club Patron (uncredited)
Jack Geiger
Dancer (uncredited)
Charlie Hall
(uncredited)
Peter Hobbes
Theatre Callboy (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Lido Waiter (uncredited)
George Nardelli
Club Patron (uncredited)
Edgar Norton
London Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Paul Power
Club Patron (uncredited)
Rita Rozelle
Dancer (uncredited)
Scott Seaton
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Genaro Spagnoli
Fisherman (uncredited)
Mary Stewart
Dancer (uncredited)
Anya Taranda
Dancer (uncredited)
Pandro S. Berman
Producer
Mark Sandrich
Director
David Abel
Director of Photography
William Hamilton
Editor
Allan Scott
Screenplay
Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction
Bernard Newman
Costume Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateAugust 29, 1935
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 41m
Budget$609,000
Box Office$3,202,000
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This Movie Is About.
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Top Hat is a 1935 American musical screwball comedy film, in which Fred Astaire plays an American tap dancer named Jerry Travers, who arrives in London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) to win her affection. The film also features Eric Blore as Hardwick's valet Bates, Erik Rhodes as Alberto Beddini, a fashion designer and rival for Dale's affections, and Helen Broderick as Hardwick's long-suffering wife Madge.
The film was directed by Mark Sandrich, and was written by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor, with songs by Irving Berlin. "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" and "Cheek to Cheek" have become American song classics. It has been nostalgically referred to β particularly its "Cheek to Cheek" segment β in many films, including The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), The Green Mile (1999), and The Boss Baby (2017).
Astaire and Rogers made nine films together at RKO Pictures, including: The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), and Carefree (1938). Top Hat was the most successful picture of Astaire and Rogers' partnership (and Astaire's second most successful picture after Easter Parade), achieving second place in worldwide box-office receipts for 1935. While some dance critics maintain that Swing Time contained a finer set of dances, Top Hat remains, to this day, the partnership's best-known work.
Top Hat was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in its second year, 1990, as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film has also been recognized by the American Film Institute on various lists commemorating the best of American cinema; the film appeared on their list of the twenty five greatest film musicals at number 15, and "Cheek to Cheek" appeared on their list of the one hundred greatest songs of American cinema, also at number 15.