Top Hat

Name: Top Hat
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Musical
Released: September 6, 1935
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 93
Cast: Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers

1935

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RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: September 6, 1935 | TV-G

Starring: Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Lucille Ball, Robert Adair, Tito Blasco, Tom Brandon

Summary: An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.

Director: Mark Sandrich

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Musical

Rating: TV-G

Runtime: 101 min

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Michael Wilmington

In Top Hat's all-time showstopper, to Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek," light-footed Fred and feathery Ginger dance us right into paradise. [23 Aug 2005, p.C3]

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

The fourth pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and the first with a screenplay written specifically for them, Top Hat is the quintessential Astaire-Rogers musical, complete with a silly plot, romance, dapper outfits, art deco sets, and plenty of wonderful songs and dance numbers. Read full review

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Roger Ebert

At a point when many dancers would be gasping for breath, Astaire and Rogers are smiling easily, heedlessly. To watch them is to see hard work elevated to effortless joy: The work of two dancers who know they can do no better than this, and that no one else can do as well. Read full review

Andre Sennwald

When Top Hat is letting Mr. Astaire perform his incomparable magic or teaming him with the increasingly dexterous Miss Rogers it is providing the most urbane fun that you will find anywhere on the screen. Read full review

Don Druker

This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form. Read full review

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This one can't miss and the reasons are three - Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin's 11 songs and sufficient comedy between numbers to hold the film together. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

The dialogue is witty and piquant, and the supporting players droll, but the labored farce of madcap marital misunderstandings are as flatfooted as the dance numbers are memorably airy. Read full review

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