Top Hat

I dance ' me in your heart into it ( Original: Top Hat). 's An American movie musical with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers from 1935 The film was produced by RKO.

Action

The American dancer Jerry Travers stays in London to prepare for a new show. The producer of the show, Horace Hardwick, informs him that Horace 's wife Madge Hardwick stays in Venice and the two invited for a weekend to himself. She wants to make known especially Jerry with a young girl, because she believes that Jerry should finally get married. Jerry keeps them nothing and this brings a tap dance in Horace ' hotel room for expression. Thus the sleeping Dale Tremont below the room is awakened. Furious, she storms into the room to stop the disturbance. Jerry falls in love at first sight with the beautiful Dale Tremont. The next day he sends her flowers, all sold by the hotel florist.

Dale Tremont receives after their return to the hotel, a telegram from her friend Madge Hardwick from Venice, with the information that she should accompany her husband for the weekend to Venice. To confusion occurs when Dale thinks that Jerry was the man of Madge. She is angry again because this is flirting with her. First, they do not want to travel to Venice for this reason. The fashion designer Beddini, working for the Dale as a model and also advertises violently to them, they persuaded to travel to Venice to open the friend 's eyes on her husband.

Jerry, however, know of this confusion nothing, but learns that Dale is the girl that Madge would like to introduce him. In Venice he makes Dale on the farm. Dale is shocked, since Madge is present. As Dale Jerry makes a proposal of marriage, she is so shocked that she immediately decides to marry the couturier Beddini, but what they repented quickly when she learns who is actually Dale. However, the wedding with Beddini is not valid because Beddini Horace ' valet Bates thought was a priest and he had performed the ceremony, and so the couple finally comes together but still.

Background

Top Hat is considered the best movie of the dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. This is certainly not to the story, which is similar to many other films with Astaire / Rogers. Above all the facilities in the Art Deco style and the camera work by David Abel helped. Abel was the first camera man who took pictures the color white, which has been avoided in movies in different variants, which also gave the dance scenes great elegance. The vocal numbers by Irving Berlin contributed to the popularity of the movie. The most famous example is the song " Cheek to Cheek ". The film was the biggest blockbuster of the production company RKO in the 1930s. The film received four Oscar nominations in 1936.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film: With perfect dances of Astaire / Rogers and immortal songs of Irving Berlin. With charm and elegance in a scene set musical, which is the highlight of the cooperation of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Trivia

In Italy, the film of dictator Benito Mussolini was banned because he was angry about what he saw as excessive caricature of the Italian fashion designer Beddini (played by Erik Rhodes).

The dance scene and the song " Cheek to Cheek " are fragmentary included in the Woody Allen film The Purple Rose of Cairo in 1985, and in the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Green Mile in 1999.

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