Coming in at movie number four of our Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers run in a favorite of my friend Bradley's, Top Hat.
We have another case of mistaken identity when it come to Top Hat. Jerry Travers (Astaire) is a dancer who makes is big on the London stage thanks to producer Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). While rehearsing a number in Horace's hotel room, Travers wakes up Dale Tremont (Rogers) in the room below. She goes up to the room to make him keep quiet the sparks start to fly! However, they are quickly burnt out when Ms. Tremont mistakes Travers for Horace, who is married to Dale's friend. However, Dale has never met Horace so she didn't know she had the wrong person. Broken hearted she accepts the proposal of another suitor. The question then become can they get everything straightened up before the spark is totally gone?
This movie does my heart happy. Let's face it though all rom-coms in the 30s were basically this plot. However, all of these movies are so cute, and the music so great, that the plot is really not the high light of the movie. It's the dancing and the fashion and the music that really sells in these movies. I know that the future movies are theirs doesn't stick to the plot much longer but you still can't help but smile when this movie is on. We also have to talk about the famous dress in the film!
This dress! The gorgeous dress is the very dress that Fred Astaire hated! He didn't like that the feathers got in the way! Also the fact that Ginger Rogers designed the dress! I mean actor, singer, dancer, designer that is an impressive list there!
I don't think Astaire and Roger have ever made a bad movie. I recommend all of them. This was was sweet, funny, and I think it's the one were Ms. Rogers looks the prettiest so far. I am shocked that we are almost halfway through their collection.
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