Top Hat (1935)

Top Hat (1935)

One of the best musicals ever IMO and perhaps Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger’s best film as well. Edward Everett Horton and Eric Blore are hilarious. Plot is rather thin though with comic mix-ups moving it along enough to display great songs and dance numbers. Astaire plays a dancer (imagine that!) named Jerry that’s working for producer Hardwick (Horton). He meets Rogers when he interrupts her sleep but she falls for him anyway. However he hasn’t given her his name so she assumes it’s Hardwick since Jerry is staying in Hardwick’s room. Then she finds out that Hardwick is married (to Helen Broderick’s character) and is disillusioned. Wonder if it all works out in the end? Directed by Mark Sandrich the credited writers are Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor who wrote the story. Lucille Ball and Donald Meek are among those who appear uncredited. Nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award its Art Direction Dance Direction (for "Piccolino" and "Top Hat") and Irving Berlin’s Song "Cheek to Cheek" (#15 on AFI’s 100 Top Movie Songs of All Time) also received Oscar nominations. The film was added to the National Film Registry in 1990. #15 on AFI’s 25 Greatest Movie Musicals list.

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