Top Hat
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Erik Rhodes
Director: Mark Sandrich
Writer: Allan Scott, Dwight Taylor
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Top Hat is a 1935 American musical comedy film, in which Fred Astaire plays an American tap dancer named Jerry Travers, who arrives in London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) to win her affection.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture; Academy Award for Best Production Design.
- Top Hat began filming on April 1, 1935, and cost $620,000 to make.
- Shooting ended in June and the first public previews were held in July.
- A further four minutes were cut before its premiere at the Radio City Music Hall, where it broke all records, went on to gross $3 million on its initial release, and became RKO's most profitable film of the 1930s.
Previous Showings
31 Runs • 20 Festivals
40,233 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (October 2, 1935)
Original Run: October 2, 1935 (Wednesday - Saturday)
All runs on record (31):
- October 2, 1935 (Wednesday - Saturday)Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- July 10 - 14, 1987 · 0 ticketsw/ The Gay Divorcee, Swing Time, Roberta, Flying Down to Rio, You Were Never Lovelier
- June 1 - 3, 1990 · 2,752 ticketsw/ The Sky's the Limit
- August 14 - 16, 1991 · 1,436 ticketsw/ The Gay Divorcee
- January 8 - 13, 1993 · 2,951 ticketsw/ The Gay Divorcee
- June 3 - 9, 1994 · 3,583 ticketsw/ The Thin Man
- July 8 - 11, 1995 · 2,506 ticketsw/ Stage Door
- July 18 - 19, 1996 · 922 ticketsw/ Lost Horizon
- July 9 - 10, 1997 · 661 ticketsw/ The Gay Divorcee
- March 19 - 22, 1998 · 1,031 ticketsFred Astaire ~ Silent Movie Saturdaysw/ Follow the Fleet
- October 30 - November 3, 1998 · 916 ticketsRomantic Comedy Seriesw/ The Philadelphia Story
- July 24 - 27, 1999 · 2,322 ticketssummer99w/ The Thin Man
- December 29, 1999 · 394 ticketsw/ The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Roman Holiday
- August 26 - 29, 2000 · 2,211 ticketsSummer 2000w/ Topper
- March 29 - 30, 2001 · 1,350 ticketsWinter 2001w/ Swing Time
- September 14 - 20, 2002 · 1,452 ticketsw/ Swing Time
- November 19 - 21, 2003 · 616 ticketsSatyajit Ray 2003w/ Jalsaghar
- December 1 - 2, 2004 · 751 ticketsBrandow/ My Man Godfrey
- March 10 - 12, 2006 · 1,463 ticketsWinter 2006w/ The Thin Man
- July 10, 2007 · 630 ticketsSummer 2007 63 films in 12 weeks, including 22 films starring Fred Astairew/ The Gay Divorcee
- July 19 - 22, 2008 · 1,735 ticketsSummer 2008 Bette Davis, James Stewart, silent films and more!w/ The Band Wagon
- November 20 - 21, 2009 · 769 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ The Gay Divorcee
- October 12 - 14, 2011 · 553 ticketsFall 2011w/ The Gay Divorcee
- June 29 - July 2, 2013 · 1,614 ticketsSummer 2013w/ The Gay Divorcee
- May 24 - 25, 2014 · 1,411 ticketsFred Astairew/ The Band Wagon
- August 10 - 12, 2016 · 740 ticketsSummer 2016w/ The Gay Divorcee
- November 18 - 20, 2016 · 1,111 ticketsAstaire and Rogers plus The Marx Brothersw/ A Night at the Opera
- July 13 - 15, 2018 · 1,358 ticketsSummer 2018w/ The Thin Man
- July 9 - 10, 2022 · 1,022 ticketsSummer 2022w/ The Gay Divorcee
- February 23 - 25, 2024 · 922 ticketsFred Astairew/ The Band Wagon
- June 7 - 8, 2025 · 1,051 ticketsFred Astairew/ The Band Wagon