Top Hat (1935)

19351h 40mdir. Mark SandrichUnited Statesromantic comedymusical film

With Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Lucille Ball, Dennis O'Keefe

Directed by Mark Sandrich

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Top Hat is a 1935 American musical comedy film, in which Fred Astaire plays an American tap dancer named Jerry Travers, who arrives in London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) to win her affection. The film also features Eric Blore as Hardwick's valet Bates, Erik Rhodes as Alberto Beddini, a fashion designer and rival for Dale's affections, and Helen Broderick as Hardwick's long-suffering wife Madge.

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