Set in Britain, the film is a fascinating love story about an American dancer and a model. At the first encounter, the man thinks that the model is too annoyed because she mistakens him for her doofy producer. What makes them become a couple afer that ?
Most of what I liked about Top Hat centers around its two stars: full of energy and grace, they breathe life into the film whenever it threatens to lose its luster.
This one can't miss and the reasons are three -- Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin's 11 songs and sufficient comedy between numbers to hold the film together.
The third Astaire-Rogers movie and one of the best.
Chicago Sun-Times
January 20, 2006
Because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.