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Top Hat

1935
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Theatrical backers, English, Scandal, Italians, Matchmakers, Carriages and carts, Italy, Gondolas and gondoliers, London (England), Impersonation and imposture

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Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Director: Mark Sandrich
Writer: Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott, Dwight Taylor, Karl Noti
Cinematographer: David Abel
Editor: William Hamilton
Production Designers: Van Nest Polglase
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

In his autobiography, Fred Astaire described the difficulties he and Ginger Rogers encountered in TOP HAT (1935) with Rogers's feathered dress in the "Cheek to Cheek" routine: "Everything went well through the song, but when we did the first movement of the dance, feathers started to fly as if a chicken had been attacked by a coyote”… Learn more at the AFI Catalog

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