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Top Hat: Directed by Mark Sandrich. 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 mistakes him for his goofy producer.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
Jul 16, 2020 · Story of a Dress: “Top Hat” Updated: Sep 1, 2020. On Ginger Rogers’s birthday, Screen Chic looks at the iconic feathered dress the dance legend fought to wear in the 1935 musical. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing the “Cheek to Cheek” number in 1935’s “Top Hat."
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Top Hat, American musical film, released in 1935, that was the first of the 10 films pairing Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to boast a screenplay written specifically for them.
The film was based on the play The Girl Who Dared. A characteristic vehicle for Astaire and Rogers, it featured a slight story of initially unrequited love, mistaken identities, and a requisite happy ending and allowed for frequent and breathtaking dance numbers starring the leading pair. Astaire played an American dancer appearing in a London stage show, and Rogers was cast as the dress model he falls for at first sight. Their romance is complicated when Rogers’s character mistakenly believes the smitten dancer to be a married man.
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•Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
•Director: Mark Sandrich
•Writer: Dwight Taylor
•Music: Irving Berlin
•Fred Astaire (Jerry Travers)
•Ginger Rogers (Dale Tremont)
•Edward Everett Horton (Horace Hardwick)
•Erik Rhodes (Alberto Beddini)
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Oct 23, 2005 · The movie's plot depends on a misunderstanding that is all but impossible: Ginger falls in love with Fred, then mistakenly decides he is the cheating husband of her best friend, Madge. "How is it that Ginger has never met her best friend's husband?" Alan Vanneman reasonably asks in the Bright Lights Film Journal. "Well, Europe is a big place."
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