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Top Hat
(1935)
In director Mark Sandrich's Depression-Era musical/dance
classic (with an Irving Berlin score) - a tale of mistaken identity:
- the early scene of Jerry Travers' (Fred Astaire)
disturbing hotel room tap-dance "No Strings" - in which
he slapped the walls - that upset sleeping Dale Tremont (Ginger
Rogers) in a room below
- his ability to put both Dale and Horace Hardwick
(Edward Everett Horton) back to sleep
- the delightfully dreamy song-dance: "Isn't This
a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain)?" in a sheltering band
shell during a rain shower
- the backdrop of an art-deco Venice with fabulous
sets
- Jerry's firing of his cane as a gun to creatively
shoot down his chorus during "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" (Astaire's
signature number)
- the most memorable Astaire-Rogers duet ever -- Gershwin's "Cheek
to Cheek"
(with the famous opening lyric "Heaven, I'm in Heaven...")
with Rogers dancing in a gown made of shedding ostrich feathers
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