Top Hat
by Lloyd French, Mark Sandrich
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Actor: Arline Dinitz, Bob Hope, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Nell O'DayDirector: Lloyd French, Mark Sandrich
Writer: Aladar Laszlo
Writer: Allan Scott
Writer: Dolph Singer
Writer: Dwight Taylor
Writer: Jack Henley
Writer: K?roly N?ti
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Italian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Movie Reviews of Top Hat
Movie Review: Putting on the Ritz to Irving Berlin tunes
Summary: 4 Stars
To get the picture of why this movie was such a hit , you have to realize that 1935 was the height of the depression in America.
Here we have a picture of a life of extreme ( almost heaven like)
living by a beautiful couple who sing and dance.
Fred Astaire was one of the first musical superstars in the movies.
Some of his stomping steps are more Spanish than anything,
but he was popular for his singing as well.
Ginger Rogers was the perfectly beautiful blond bomb shell who could dance.
The acting wasn't really much, but we don't expect it to be.
Rich people hiring airplanes to fly down to the Italian Rivera
and staying in hotels
that remind one of Roman palaces?
The result is still fantastic 80 years later!
Summary of Top Hat
Perhaps the best remembered of the 10 Astaire/Rogers musicals, Top Hat has it all: Art Deco elegance, a wonderfully addled storyline, loopy support from skilled farceurs and the incomparable chemistry of the two leads cheek-to-cheeking to Irving Berlin's finest film score. It's a wake-up call for romance when Fred's exuberant No Strings dance in his hotel suite disturbs the sleeping beauty (Ginger) in the room below. They meet cute, Fred decides he'd like a few strings (preferably a tied knot) after all and love beckons until Ginger mistakenly gets the idea that Fred is a married playboy. But mistakes can be wonderfully, wackily resolved. Among the highlights: Fred mows down the chorus line in his signature Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, the shimmeringly dreamy Isn't It a Lovely Day (to Be Caught in the Rain)? and the rhapsodically tender Cheek to Cheek. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Top Hat is top-drawer entertainment magic.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Fred Astaire?s Daughter Ava Astaire McKenzie and Film Dance Historian Larry Billman
Featurette:On Top: Inside the Success of Top Hat
Other:Comedy Short Watch the Birdie with Bob Hope, Classic Cartoon Page Miss Glory
Even the best Fred and Ginger musicals are merely lavish excuses for some of the most elegant dancing ever put on screen, and Top Hat is no exception. The story is a silly but timeless tale of mistaken identity that compounds itself to extremes. Fred Astaire is the famous American hoofer Jerry Travers, in London preparing for a new show with his befuddled producer Horace Hardwick (the always entertaining Edward Everett Horton) when he falls for Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers), a lovely, wisecracking American girl as light on her feet as Jerry. Dale believes Jerry to be Horace, the husband of her best friend Madge (Helen Broderick) and rebuffs his advances by marrying her dressmaker Alberto (Erik Rhodes), but in the best tradition of musical comedy, true love finds its own way. Practically the entire cast of the 1934 hit The Gay Divorcee reunites for this frothy confection, along with director Mark Sandrich, designer Van Nest Polglase, and choreographer Hermes Pan. Irving Berlin provides a tuneful score, including "Cheek to Cheek," which provides a classic duet for Astaire and Rogers, and "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails," which remains one of Astaire's finest solo numbers. Polglase outdoes himself with sets both elegant and outrageous and Hermes Pan's choreography is as smooth as ever, but ultimately it's the grace and chemistry of the leads that makes Top Hat top entertainment. --Sean Axmaker
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