TOP HAT 1935

 

TOP HAT   1935

Directed by: Mark Sandrich

Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Erik Rhodes, Helen Broderick, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Lucille Ball

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, 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

Look for a young Lucille Ball as a clerk in a flower shop.  

TAGLINES:

They're Dancing Cheek-To-Cheek Again!
See them dance the sensational Piccolino!

Release Date:

USA - 6 September 1935

Technical Specs

Runtime: 101 min  | USA: 81 min (re-release) (re-edited version)
Sound Mix: Mono (RCA Victor System)
Colour: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

AWARDS:

Academy Awards
1936  Nominated Oscar
Best Art Direction Carroll Clark  Van Nest Polglase
Best Dance Direction Hermes Pan For "Piccolino" and "Top Hat".
Best Music, Original Song Irving Berlin For the song "Cheek to Cheek".
Best Picture

QUOTES:

Dale Tremont: I dropped up from the room below where I've been trying to get some sleep!
Jerry Travers: Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't realize I was disturbing you. You see, every once in a while I suddenly find myself... dancing.
Dale Tremont: Oh, I suppose it's some kind of an affliction.

Jerry Travers: All is fair in love and war, and this is revolution!

Horace Hardwick: You mean to sit there and tell me that that girl slapped your face in front of all those people for nothing?
Jerry Travers: Well, what would you have done? Sold tickets?

Jerry Travers: Are you afraid of thunder?
Dale Tremont: Oh, no. It's just the noise.
Jerry Travers: You know what thunder is, don't you?
Dale Tremont: Of course. It's something about the air.
Jerry Travers: No, no. When a clumsy cloud from here meets a fluffy little cloud from there, he billows towards her. She scurries away and he scuds right up to her. She cries a little and there you have you showers. He comforts her. They spark. That's the lightning. They kiss. Thunder.

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