Top Hat
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- A top-hat is also an item of clothing.
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. Eric Blore also appears as Hardwick's valet Bates.
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.
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.