Top Hat (1935)
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 0
A glamorous and enthralling Depression-era diversion, Top Hat is nearly flawless, with acrobatics by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers that make the hardest physical stunts seem light as air.
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0
A glamorous and enthralling Depression-era diversion, Top Hat is nearly flawless, with acrobatics by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers that make the hardest physical stunts seem light as air.
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One of the best of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, Top Hat centers on a typical mistaken-identity plot, with wealthy Dale Tremont (Rogers), on holiday in London and Venice, assuming that American entertainer Jerry Travers (Astaire) is the husband of her friend Madge (Helen Broderick) -- who's actually the wife of Jerry's business manager Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). Complicating matters is Dale's jealous suitor Beddini (Erik Rhodes), whose motto is "For the woman the kiss --
Sep 6, 1935 Wide
Aug 16, 2005
Turner Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Fred Astaire
Jerry Travers -
Ginger Rogers
Dale Tremont -
Edward Everett Horton
Horace Hardwick -
Erik Rhodes
Alberto Beddini -
Helen Broderick
Madge Hardwick -
Eric Blore
Bates -
Lucille Ball
Flower Clerk -
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Gino Corrado
Hotel Manager -
Peter Hobbes
Call Boy -
Leonard Mudie
Flower Salesman -
Edgar Norton
Hotel Manager -
Tom Ricketts
Thackeray Club Waiter -
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Frank Mills
Lido Waiter -
Dennis O'Keefe
Elevator Passenger -
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All Critics (37) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (0) | DVD (8)
Finally, thanks more to Fred Astaire than any other single influence, the character of musicomedy in the cinema has now completely changed.
Top CriticThis 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.
This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form.
The third Astaire-Rogers movie and one of the best.
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.
The plot is involving, especially as it builds to its seemingly impossible-to-solve finale.
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.
Arguably the classiest and funniest of the RKO Astaire-Rogers musicals.
If you want only one Astaire-Rogers musical, Top Hat is obligatory.
The fourth pairing of Astaire-Rogers is one of their best and RKO top grosser of the year.
Top Hat does not glorify wealth or upper class status - if anything it continually pokes fun at it.
The music is ceaselessly delightful, and thanks to Astaire it sometimes springs out of nowhere. (TCM Greatest Classic Films Four-Movie Set)
...even after seventy years, the same elements delight us all over again. Good songs, good dancing, and good stars never go out of style.
An essential film.
Every musical number works, and the mistaken identity plot is pleasant enough, even if there's too much emphatic dithering from the supporting players towards the end.
One of the best of the Astaire-Rogers best.
Fred and Ginger's best.
Audience Reviews for Top Hat
Super Reviewer
The balance between movie and music is excellent, the chemistry between Fred and Ginger is great. But I just didn't feel it.
The decor and the clothing were hideous, and the movie a little too theatrical for my taste. This is my first and probably my last dance movie.
Super Reviewer
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- Bates: Where do you want it, sir?
- Horace Hardwick: Want what, Bates?
- Bates: The steak, sir.
- Horace Hardwick: On my eye.
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Foreign Titles
- Ich tanz mich in dein Herz hinein (DE)
- Top Hat (1935) (UK)
