TOP HAT

 "TOP HAT"   (1935) 

SYNOPSIS: "The story centers on wealthy Dale Tremont, on holiday in London and Venice. She assumes that American entertainer Jerry Travers is the husband of her friend Madge -- who's actually the wife of Jerry's business manager Horace Hardwick."

STARRING: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes, Gino Corrado, Leonard Mudie and Dennis O'Keefe.

SCREENPLAY: Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor; Story by Dwight Taylor; Based on "A Scandal in Budapest" - 1911 play by Alexander Faragó and Aladar Laszlo.

DIRECTOR: Mark Sandrich

AWARDS & HONORS:

The film was nominated for the Oscar for "Best Picture", as well as "Art Direction," "Original Song" (Irving Berlin for "Cheek to Cheek"), and Dance Direction (Hermes Pan for "Piccolino" and "Top Hat").

In 1990, Top Hat was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

The film ranked number 15 on the 2006 American Film Institute's list of best musicals.

Top Hat has been nostalgically referenced — particularly its "Cheek to Cheek" segment — in many films, including "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985), "The English Patient" (1996), "The Green Mile" (1999), "La La Land" (2016) and the animated film "The Boss Baby" (2017).

Top Hat's movie poster appeared in Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu Hustle."

British-Irish singer-songwriter Chris de Burgh referenced the movie in his 1986 hit, "The Lady in Red", wherein he and the eponymous lady in the song danced "Cheek to Cheek."