Actors - Top Hat

	Actors - Top Hat

:Top Hat a character from childrens series TUGS

Top Hat is a 1935 musical comedy romance film in which Fred Astaire plays a character named Jerry Travers, who is working for Horace Hardwick (played by Edward Everett Horton) and attempting to impress Dale Tremont (played by Ginger Rogers) to win her affection. It also features Eric Blore as Hardwick's valet Bates, Erik Rhodes as Alberto Beddini, rival for Dale's affections, and Helen Broderick as Hardwick's wife Madge.

The film was written by Karl Noti, Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor, from the play by Alexander Faragó and Aladar Laszlo. It was directed by Mark Sandrich. The songs are by Irving Berlin. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails and Cheek to Cheek have become American song classics.

It has been nostalgically referenced---particularly its "Cheek to Cheek" segment---in many films, including The Purple Rose of Cairo
(1985) and The Green Mile
(1999).

Top Hat was the most successful picture of Astaire-Rogers partnership (and Astaire's second most successful picture after Easter Parade
), achieving 2nd place in worldwide box-office receipts for 1935, and while some dance critics maintain that Swing Time
contains a finer set of dances, Top Hat remains, to this day, this partnership's best known work.

Awards

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as Art Direction (Carroll Clark and Van Nest Polglase), Original Song (Irving Berlin for "Cheek to Cheek"), and Dance Direction (Hermes Pan for "Piccolino" and "Top Hat").

Deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Category:1935 films Category:Musical films Category:Best Picture Oscar Nominee Category:United States National Film Registry Category:Best Song Oscar Nominee Category:Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

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