Synopsis
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, 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.
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Cast
- Fred AstaireJerry Travers
- Ginger RogersDale Tremont
- Edward Everett HortonHorace Hardwick
- Erik RhodesAlberto Beddini
- Eric BloreBates
- Helen BroderickMadge Hardwick
- Lucille BallFlower Shop Clerk (uncredited)
- Gino CorradoVenice Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- Leonard MudieFlorist (uncredited)
- Dennis O'KeefeElevator Passenger / Hotel Guest / Dancer (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 100
Austin Chronicle
Hands down, this is the best Astaire-Rogers musical ever. Nothing more needs to be said. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
Top Hat is tops with two of the duo’s most sublime numbers (The Piccolino, Cheek to Cheek), plus Fred’s rat-a-tat solo, a funnier-than-you-remember script (Erik Rhodes’ English-mangling designer exclaiming: ”Never again will I allow women to wear my dresses!”), and the hummable Irving Berlin score. - 100
Chicago Tribune
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] - 90
The New York Times
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. - 88
Chicago Reader
This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form. - 80
Variety
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.
