Top Hat (1. 93. 5)Background. Top Hat (1. 93. 5) is one of the great 3. Astaire and Rogers. Its tagline was: "They're Dancing Cheek- to- Cheek Again."Some consider it as a glorified re- make of their earlier film. The Gay Divorcee (1. The film's witty script, written specifically for Astaire. Rogers, was written by Dwight Taylor (author of The Gay Divorcee). Allan Scott - and was based on the play The Girl Who Dared, by. Alexander Farago and Aladar Laszlo. This film, directed by Mark Sandrich (who directed five of. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared in for RKO (between 1. Top. Hat became RKO's greatest box- office hit of the 3. By its second week (in September 1. New York's Radio City Music Hall by taking in $2. En la película Top Hat podemos disfrutar una de las escenas más famosas de Fred Astaire y Ginger Rogers, llamada Cheek to Cheek. La canción de esta escena alcanzó. Jerry (Fred Astaire) warbles the Irving Berlin tune for skeptical Dale (Ginger Rogers), into the dance that caused him to nickname her Feathers, the famous number. It became the second highest- grossing film of the year worldwide behind. Mutiny on the Bounty (1. Flying Down to Rio (1. Astaire/Rogers not. Dolores del Rio, Gene Raymond, and Raul Roulien. Top Hat (1935) is one of the great 30s dance musicals, and possibly the best, most characteristic and most profitable Astaire and Rogers musical ever, with. Trailer for 'Top Hat'. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Top Hat is a 1935 American screwball musical comedy film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show. From Top Hat (1935) choreography by Fred Astaire and Hermes Pan music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Product Description. Jerry Travers (Fred Astaire) receives an inexplicably haughty response from Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) when he attempts to woo her, but that's. A lot of adjectives come to mind when one mentions Fred Astaire: debonair, poised, elegant, captivating. And nouns too, especially grace. The best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie ever made. In my opinion, of course. Edward Everett Horton is hilarious here. The Gay Divorcee (1. Roberta (1. 93. 5)Top Hat (1. Follow the Fleet (1. Swing Time (1. 93. Shall We Dance (1. Carefree (1. 93. 8)*The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1. The Barkleys of Broadway (1. MGM, 1. 0 years later. The film's legendary dances at the pinnacle of Astaire's. Rogers' teaming, with their charm and sophistication, naturally help. London, and whose budding romance is. Romantic dance. numbers (love duets) help Astaire win the scornful Rogers over to him - . Isn't. This a Lovely Day?" in England, and later with "Cheek to Cheek" in. With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes. An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she. Venice, Italy). The musical score by Irving Berlin, with five songs including. Berlin and Astaire. Berlin would go. on to write songs for five more Astaire films.] All of Berlin's songs, that. The songs included "No Strings,". Isn't This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain)," "Top. Hat, White Tie, and Tails," "Cheek to Cheek," and "The. Piccolino." [Three Berlin songs were written for the film, but didn't. Wild About You," "Get Thee Behind. Me, Satan," and "You're the Cause."]Filmed during the Depression Era, the film's idea of wealth and glittering. Art Deco Venice with winding canals and bridges. In its own. way, the film satirizes stuffy upper- class manners while glorifying in them. Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1. Cecilia (Mia Farrow) watched the famous "Cheek. Cheek" song- and- dance number from this film, and her face slowly. The film was Oscar- less, but was nominated for four Academy. Awards: Best Picture, Best Interior Decoration (Carroll Clark and Van Nest. Polglase), Best Song ("Cheek to Cheek" with music and lyrics by. Irving Berlin), and Best Dance Direction (Hermes Pan with the uncredited. Astaire himself). The film lost the Best Picture honor to Mutiny. Bounty (1. 93. 5). The Story. The titles and credits begin with an opening sequence depicting a shiny. First Fred Astaire, then Ginger Rogers. After they swirl toward the camera. The top hat belongs to a dignified man who enters a stuffy, but stately London. Club - the Thackeray Club (founded 1. The atmosphere is so quiet and still that the slightest cough and. The rustling newspaper belongs to American Jerry Travers (Fred. Astaire), a celebrated Broadway dancer making his London debut the next evening. He is waiting to be picked up by the prissy, high- strung producer of the London. Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). When Hardwick, the show- business. Travers, the dancer. In Hardwick's hotel suite later that evening, Hardwick tells. Jerry that his wife Madge (Helen Broderick, mother of actor Broderick Crawford). Jerry to fly down with Horace over the weekend to the Lido (a seaside. Venice, Italy), where she is vacationing. Madge plans to have. Jerry meet, for match- making purposes, a "young friend" and "there's something in the. Hardwick suggests that the free- spirited Jerry should consider. Horace: Look here, young fella, I think it's about time you found out for. Jerry: .. No thanks, Horace. In me, you see a youth who is completely on. No yens. No yearnings. No strings. No connections.(He begins singing "No Strings")No ties to my affections. I'm fancy- free. I'm free for anything fancy. No dates that can't be broken. No words that can't be spoken. Especially when I am feeling romance- y. Like a robin upon a tree. Like a sailor that goes to sea. Like an unwritten melody, I'm free, that's me. So bring on the big attraction, My decks are cleared for action. I'm fancy- free. I'm free for anything fancy. Happy- go- lucky, dapper Jerry has another urge and breaks. He sings confidently, in "No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)" that. After singing the verses twice, he exuberantly. The camera cranes downward to the hotel room below, where. Jerry has wakened Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) in her satiny bedroom. After. phone calls to the hotel manager, who reports the complaint by phone to. Horace in the room, Travers continues to dance around, toppling a marble. The awakened sleeper from the floor below, where. Jerry meets her as she glares and complains to him during the. After apologizing for disturbing her and confessing. Dale: I dropped up from the room below where I've been trying. Jerry: Oh, I'm sorry. I, uh, I didn't realize I was disturbing you. You see. every once in a while, I.. I suddenly find myself - dancing. Dale: Oh, I suppose it's some kind of an affliction. Jerry: Yes, yes, it's an affliction. Uhm, St. Vitus Dance [a disease of the. Dale: And it only occurs at this time of night? Jerry: Yes, that's it. It only occurs at this time of night. As a matter of. fact, I really shouldn't be left alone. Dale: Yes, I can see that. You probably should have a couple of guards. She isn't very impressed by his confession that has upset. As she returns to her room, smiling to. Jerry has another dance "attack" coming on in the hallway. Jerry: I wish you wouldn't leave. Dale: Why not? Jerry: I think I feel an attack coming on. He starts dancing in the hallway). See, there it is. Dale: So I see. Jerry: There's only one thing that'll stop me. Dale: Oh, you must tell me what it is! Jerry: My nurses always put their arms around me. She rolls her eyes) Well. I'll call the house detective and tell him to put his arms around. Jerry describes to Horace the 'complaint' that he has just. I've just. seen the complaint and she's lovely, she's delightful, she's charming, and. He softens the noise of his dancing by appointing himself. To lull her to sleep, he proceeds to gently perform. One floor below, Dale snuggles back to sleep in her. The sand dance is quite effective - Dale and Horton both fall asleep. Jerry winds up yawning and collapsing into a chair himself. The next day, courting Dale Tremont, he purchases most of. From. your silent admirer." He asks that they be charged to Horace Hardwick, Room. After Jerry leaves, the flower salesman wonders to his assistant (Lucille. Ball in an early role) about how Miss Tremont's Italian dress designer Alberto. Beddini (Erik Rhodes) will react: "I wonder what Mr. Beddini is going. The desk clerk has intimated that Mr. Beddini provides. Miss Tremont with all the niceties. Including her clothes.. And her niceties. When Jerry finds Dale dressed in riding clothes in the hotel. Belcher Riding Academy stables, but. He surreptitiously takes the place of the hansom cab driver. She discovers that he is the driver when he. Dale spots him through the cab's trap door. Jerry. provides her with a thought about the similarity between his uncontrollable. In dealing with a girl or horse. Only slightly amused by his behavior. Buy yourself a new hat."While she rides in the park (Hyde Park?), a thunderstorm. Ardent. and hopeful, Jerry drives up in the cab, offering to rescue her, but she. No thank you. I prefer being in distress.". They engage in aggressive banter: Jerry: A charming little spot you have here. When does the. concert start? Dale: Just as soon as you and the rain stop. Jerry: Aw now, please, you wouldn't like to be just a little bit more friendly. Dale: Why should I? I don't know you from Adam. Jerry: Maybe it's the way I'm dressed. A sudden thunderburst startles her, sending her into his arms. She is surprised. He describes. a thunderstorm as a meteorological kiss: When a clumsy cloud from here meets a fluffy little cloud from there. She scurries away, and he scuds right up to her. She. cries a little, and there you have your shower. He comforts her. They spark. That's the lightning. They kiss. Thunder! First, he sings "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" to. Although she listens. The weather is frightening,The thunder and lightning. Seem to be having their way,But as far as I'm concerned,It's a lovely day. The turn in the weather. Will keep us together. So I can honestly say. That as far as I'm concerned,It's a lovely day and everything's OK. Isn't this a lovely day to be caught in the rain? You were going on your way. Now you've got to remain. Just as you were going. Leaving me all at sea. The clouds broke. They broke, and oh what a break for me. I can see the sun up high. Though we're caught in a storm. I can see where you and I could be cozy and warm. Let the rain pitter patter. But it really doesn't matter. If the skies are grey. Long as I can be with you,It's a lovely day. Then, after the song ends, he walks slowly away toward the middle of the. At the start of a two. They perform a wonderful dance together. He challenges her with a dance step which she accepts and then repeats. Soon. she adds an original variation of her own to top him and presents it to him. As the dance progresses, they are cooperating. Facing toward each. The tempo of the music accelerates, as they mirror each other's steps while. Frolicking. and tap- spinning together, again side by side, they become more and more playful. A loud, crackling thunderclap causes them to freeze and look at each other. Then the music and the tempo of their dancing accelerates again, as they make. They take a leap while turning. And then for the. After a series of stops and starts, performed in unison, they cooperate. At the end. of their marvelous dance sequence, they dance off the front of the bandstand. Back at the hotel, fashion model Dale must explain to Alberto.
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