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Top Hat

  • 19351935
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  • 1h 41m
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Top Hat (1935)
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An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.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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    • Director
      • Mark Sandrich
    • Writers
      • Dwight Taylor(screen play)
      • Allan Scott(screen play)
      • Aladar Laszlo(play)
    • Stars
      • Fred Astaire
      • Ginger Rogers
      • Edward Everett Horton
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    • Director
      • Mark Sandrich
    • Writers
      • Dwight Taylor(screen play)
      • Allan Scott(screen play)
      • Aladar Laszlo(play)
    • Stars
      • Fred Astaire
      • Ginger Rogers
      • Edward Everett Horton
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 138User reviews
    • 60Critic reviews
    • 92Metascore
    • Nominated for 4 Oscars
      • 2 wins & 6 nominations total

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    Fred Astaire
    Fred Astaire
    • Jerry Travers
    Ginger Rogers
    Ginger Rogers
    • Dale Tremont
    Edward Everett Horton
    Edward Everett Horton
    • Horace Hardwick
    Erik Rhodes
    Erik Rhodes
    • Alberto Beddini
    Eric Blore
    Eric Blore
    • Bates
    Helen Broderick
    Helen Broderick
    • Madge Hardwick
    Robert Adair
    • London Hotel Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball
    • Flower Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Tito Blasco
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    William A. Boardway
    William A. Boardway
    • Club Member
    • (uncredited)
    Tom Brandon
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Roy Brent
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Tex Brodus
    • Hotel Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Phyllis Coghlan
    • Dancer
    • (uncredited)
    Gino Corrado
    Gino Corrado
    • Venice Hotel Manager
    • (uncredited)
    Tom Costello
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Lorinne Crawford
    • Dancer
    • (uncredited)
    Oliver Cross
    • Hotel Guest
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Mark Sandrich
    • Writers
      • Dwight Taylor(screen play) (story)
      • Allan Scott(screen play)
      • Aladar Laszlo(play) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      The finale of "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" production number with Fred Astaire miming his cane as a weapon "attacking" his supporting dancers, 13 canes were prepared for it. During shooting, Astaire, ever the unforgiving perfectionist, was continually breaking his canes in frustration at his mistakes, which concerned the crew that he was running out of them. As it turns out, the shooting of the scene was finished with the very last cane.
    • Goofs
      The opening scenes shows Jerry Travers already seated in the lounge of the club. No gentlemen's club, at least a London club, to this day allows guests to be seated in the lounge before their sponsor arrives and vouches for them.
    • Quotes

      Jerry Travers: In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.

    • Connections
      Featured in Hollywood and the Stars: The Fabulous Musicals (1963)
    • Soundtracks
      Alexander's Ragtime Band
      (1911) (fragment) (uncredited)

      Music by Irving Berlin

      In the score during the opening credits

    User reviews138

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    The real star of the movie
    When whipping up the froth of a musical comedy most creators and commentators forget that fateful second word . . . COMEDY. Not to take away from Astaire & Rogers' beautiful balletic grace, but no one ever gave more comedy more modestly yet more professionally than Edward Everett Horton. His triple-barreled name alone suggests haughty dignity and sniffing puritanism, and his role in this film, as in so many others, gives him ample scope to screw up his mouth in petty disdain, look aghast at social blunders, and sputter in disbelief over the foibles of others while generously ignoring his own idiocies. Horton is a reactor, one which boosts a fairly pedestrian plot to the Moon & beyond. Like Margret DuMont with the Marx Brothers, there is something about the pernickity Horton that begs us to tilt his top hat and fling a banana peel his way just for the delightful reaction we are sure of getting. Perplexed or chagrined, the hatchet-faced Horton is a monument to the lost art of supporting clown -- those dumb bunnies and prissy busybodies that used to inhabit movies and give them life & breath even when the big-shot stars were off the screen. Horton had impeccable timing in delivering a line or flashing a double-take -- you feel he could just as easily count the nano-seconds between the neutron pulses of an atom. If he seems to intrude too much into the musical numbers of this movie it's simply because the director/editor must have been overly fond of his coy mugging. I recommend that music lovers rewatch this film and concentrate on Edward Everett Horton. Your attention will be well-rewarded with deep chuckles and an abiding affection for this New England zany.
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    • Release date
      • September 6, 1935 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • The World by the Tail
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $609,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $5,541
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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