Seventy-seven years right after Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers lit up Hollywood's silver screen with one with the greatest dance musicals of all time, RKO Pictures' Top Hat is inside the West Finish. Judging by the sensational critiques, standing ovations and sold out theatres about the country on its pre-London tour, it has been well worth the wait.
Tom Chambers (Holby City heartthrob and Strictly Come Dancing winner) plays the irrepressible Broadway sensation Jerry Travers who dances his way across Europe to win the heart of society model Dale Tremont, played by triple Olivier Award nominee Summer Strallen (Enjoy Never ever Dies, The Sound of Music, The Drowsy Chaperone).
Top Hat is really a 1935 screwball comedy musical film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show made by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) to win her affection. The film also capabilities 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.
The film was written by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor. It was directed by Mark Sandrich. The songs had been written by Irving Berlin. "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" and "Cheek to Cheek" have turn into American song classics.
It has been nostalgically referenced particularly its "Cheek to Cheek" segment in several films, such as The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) and the Green Mile (1999).
Top Hat was essentially the most profitable image of Astaire and Rogers' partnership (and Astaire's second most successful image after Easter Parade), achieving second place in worldwide box-office receipts for 1935. Although some dance critics sustain that Swing Time contained a finer set of dances, Top Hat remains, to this day, the partnership's best-known perform.
Tom Chambers (Holby City heartthrob and Strictly Come Dancing winner) plays the irrepressible Broadway sensation Jerry Travers who dances his way across Europe to win the heart of society model Dale Tremont, played by triple Olivier Award nominee Summer Strallen (Enjoy Never ever Dies, The Sound of Music, The Drowsy Chaperone).
Top Hat is really a 1935 screwball comedy musical film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show made by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) to win her affection. The film also capabilities 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.
The film was written by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor. It was directed by Mark Sandrich. The songs had been written by Irving Berlin. "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" and "Cheek to Cheek" have turn into American song classics.
It has been nostalgically referenced particularly its "Cheek to Cheek" segment in several films, such as The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) and the Green Mile (1999).
Top Hat was essentially the most profitable image of Astaire and Rogers' partnership (and Astaire's second most successful image after Easter Parade), achieving second place in worldwide box-office receipts for 1935. Although some dance critics sustain that Swing Time contained a finer set of dances, Top Hat remains, to this day, the partnership's best-known perform.
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