If you want only one Astaire-Rogers musical, Top Hat is obligatory.
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04/24/09
Top Hat (1935)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:36
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.7/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: A musical comedy full of high style, romance, mistaken identity... and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing and singing 11 of Irving Berlin's best songs. When Jerry Travers meets lovely Dale... [More]
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick
Director: Mark Sandrich
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Reviews for Top Hat
Finally, thanks more to Fred Astaire than any other single influence, the character of musicomedy in the cinema has now completely changed.
04/24/09
Tip top.
01/01/00
Arguably the classiest and funniest of the RKO Astaire-Rogers musicals.
04/24/09
All the minor players are such skilled comedians that they are able to extract merriment from this none too original comedy of errors.
05/20/03
No review available.
07/26/02
Even if you can't quite appreciate the music, sit back and get clued in to why Fred Astaire is one of the movies' all-time great physical performers.
01/01/00
No review available.
08/22/03
the definitive Fred & Ginger movie
01/01/00
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.
08/01/05
No review available.
07/28/04
No review available.
07/26/02
Delightful.
01/01/00
Top Hat does not glorify wealth or upper class status - if anything it continually pokes fun at it.
06/24/06
This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form.
01/11/08
The plot is involving, especially as it builds to its seemingly impossible-to-solve finale.
09/07/05
Top CriticThe fourth pairing of Astaire-Rogers is one of their best and RKO top grosser of the year.
03/21/08
Fred and Ginger's best.
12/21/04
No review available.
07/07/05
...even after seventy years, the same elements delight us all over again. Good songs, good dancing, and good stars never go out of style.
08/03/05
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