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Top Hat Sponsored by Scott Hulse Law Firm 1935 | Not Rated | Comedy, Musical | d. Mark Sandrich Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at their peak! |
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| From RKO Radio Pictures comes one of the most delightful and entertaining song and dance extravaganzas among the many memorable film teamings of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Astaire plays Jerry Travers, a dancer who falls hard for Ginger’s Dale Tremont. Dale responds in kind – until she becomes convinced, through a series of ill-timed coincidences, that Jerry is married to her best friend. How two people can sing and dance together so beautifully while completely misunderstanding one another is the peculiar comic and musical magic of Top Hat, which will have you humming its Oscar-nominated Irving Berlin tunes – like “Cheek to Cheek,” “Top Hat, White Tie and Tails” and “Isn’t This a Lovely Day (to be Caught in the Rain)” – long after the curtain has closed. With hilarious supporting performances by Edward Everett Horton as Jerry’s manager, Horace Hardwick, and Helen Broderick as Dale’s best friend, Mrs. Madge Hardwick, Top Hat is a perfect example of the Hollywood musical: romantic, full of misadventure and featuring – literally – toe-tapping numbers at every turn. - Tom Schmid | ||