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Feature Film - 101mn
Color
English
ScreenplayAllan Scott
CinematographyDavid Abel
MusicIrving Berlin
CastFred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
GenreComedy musical
First ReleaseAugust 30, 1935 (USA),
March 4, 1936 (France)
ProductionRKO Pictures
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SynopsisShowman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace’s hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
AboutTop 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. The film ranked number 15 on the 2006 American Film Institute’s list of best musicals
Selective Filmography of Mark Sandrich(1901 - 1945)
1934 – Gay divorcee
1937 – Shall we dance
1940 – Love thy neighbor
1942 – Holiday Inn
1946 – Blue Skies
With the courtesy ofAries and BFI
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