Top Hat
- Director: Mark Sandrich
- Writer: Sándor Faragó; Aladar Laszlo
- Producer: Pandro S. Berman
CGiii Comment
C'mon...Astaire was an unattractive goofball...playing an 'alluring' gentleman takes a helluva lot of suspending disbelief!
His form of dancing is - dare we say - by today's standards...a little hackneyed!?!
The story is like all the rest...see girl, dance, get girl, dance, lose girl, dance, get girl back...dance!
The direction is like all the rest...Mark Sandrich had a formula and - tenaciously - stuck to it!
Seen one, seen them all!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
Cast & Characters
Fred Astaire as Jerry Travers;
Ginger Rogers as Dale Tremont;
Edward Everett Horton as Horace Hardwick;
Erik Rhodes as Alberto Beddini;
Eric Blore as Bates;
Helen Broderick as Madge Hardwick;
Robert Adair as London Hotel Clerk;
Lucille Ball as Flower Clerk;
Phyllis Coghlan;
Gino Corrado as Venice Hotel Manager;
Tom Costello;
Jack Geiger as Dancer;
Charlie Hall as Bit Part;
Peter Hobbes as Theater Callboy;
Ben Holmes