Top Hat
Set in Britain, the film is a fascinating love story about an American dancer and a model. At the first encounter, the man thinks that the model is too annoyed because she mistakens him for her doofy producer. What makes them become a couple afer that ?
31 March 1905, Pennsylvania, USA
11 March 1871, Sacramento, California, USA
September 11, 1889 in Houston, Texas, USA
7 December 1902, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 January 1891, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
August 11, 1868 in London, England, UK
October 21, 1895 in Paris, France
23 December 1887, London, England, UK
29 March 1908, Fort Madison, Iowa, USA
10 May 1899, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
August 03, 2005
...even after seventy years, the same elements delight us all over again. Good songs, good dancing, and good stars never go out of style.January 20, 2006
Because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.April 24, 2009
Finally, thanks more to Fred Astaire than any other single influence, the character of musicomedy in the cinema has now completely changed.April 24, 2009
Arguably the classiest and funniest of the RKO Astaire-Rogers musicals.January 11, 2008
This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form.April 24, 2009
If you want only one Astaire-Rogers musical, Top Hat is obligatory.September 07, 2005
The plot is involving, especially as it builds to its seemingly impossible-to-solve finale.March 21, 2008
The fourth pairing of Astaire-Rogers is one of their best and RKO top grosser of the year.February 09, 2006
The third Astaire-Rogers movie and one of the best.June 24, 2006
Top Hat does not glorify wealth or upper class status - if anything it continually pokes fun at it.April 06, 2010
Most of what I liked about Top Hat centers around its two stars: full of energy and grace, they breathe life into the film whenever it threatens to lose its luster.January 11, 2008
This one can't miss and the reasons are three -- Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin's 11 songs and sufficient comedy between numbers to hold the film together.