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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical:Top Hat (1935) – Musical read more

My HISTORY OF FASHION IN FILM screening series at the Egyptian Theatre continues with the 1930s on March 17! This series is 7 parts - one event per decade from the 1920s to the 1980s - and each will be followed by a screening of a film featured in the talk. Some of the incredible style we cele read more

DOUBLE BILL #3 Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936) On June 4, 2017June 4, 2017 By CarolIn Uncategorized Musicals of the 1930s are pretty much screwball comedies with songs. And they’re absolutely fabulous. Especially Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers one read more

Perhaps Astaire and Rogers most famous film together, Top Hat has them at top form once more, seemingly defying gravity at the full peak of the powers. The beauty of their partnership is that they’re able to tell the progression of a love story through dance, but they do it with such ease and read more

Perhaps Astaire and Rogers most famous film together, Top Hat has them at top form once more, seemingly defying gravity at the full peak of the powers. The beauty of their partnership is that they’re able to tell the progression of a love story through dance, but they do it with such ease and read more

Perhaps Astaire and Rogers most famous film together, Top Hat has them in top form once more, seemingly defying gravity at the full peak of their powers. The beauty of their partnership is that they’re able to tell the progression of a love story through dance, but they do it with such ease an read more

Share This! “When Top Hat is letting Mr. Astaire perform his incomparable magic or teaming him with the . . . dexterous Miss Rogers, it is providing the most urbane fun that you will find anywhere on the screen.” —— Andre Sennwald, The New York Times of August 30, 1935 An incident related by read more

MUSICAL MONTH TOP HAT ( 1935 ) The other night I watched “Top Hat” again, and while watching it, I couldn’t help but reminisce about my Great Grand Pop, who was an ardent supporter of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. I’ve got many fond memories of Pop, and I can still clearly read more

Starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with Edward Everett Horton, this musical opens with Astaire in London as he gets ready to star in the show of his good friend Horace (Horton). However, after a late night confrontation with an annoyed neighbor Jerry is hopelessly in love. Multiple times he tri read more

Starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with Edward Everett Horton, this musical opens with Astaire in London as he gets ready to star in the show of his good friend Horace (Horton). However, after a late night confrontation with an annoyed neighbor Jerry is hopelessly in love. Multiple times he tri read more

Top Hat Directed by Mark Sandrich 1935/USA RKO Radio Pictures Repeat viewing #93 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die     Jerry Travers: She loves me. Jerry Travers (Fred Astaire) is a famous song and dance man who is scheduled to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Ev read more

Classic Movie Magnet Madness Entry Task for today… In order to win today’s Top Hat Classic Movie Magnet, be the FIRST person to TWEET the correct answer to the following question. (US and Canada entries only please, sorry) Fill-in-the-Blank Question (TWEET your answer): Legendary character actor read more

Classic Movie Magnet Madness Entry Task for today… In order to win today’s Top Hat Classic Movie Magnet, be the FIRST person to TWEET the correct answer to the following question. (US and Canada entries only please, sorry) The Question (TWEET your answer): In the film Top Hat, Jerry (Fred Astaire) read more

CLASSIC MOVIE MAGNET MADNESS continues today! Day Three of the 39-day contest promotion continues… Classic Movie Hub will be giving away one Classic Movie Magnet a day, every day from now until January 10, courtesy of rickroden.com! So – there will be at least ONE CHANCE to win one magnet EVERY read more

For the next month or so, I will be celebrating Art Deco style on GlamAmor to continue to build excitement toward April's TCM Classic Film Festival--Style in the Movies.  To kick things off and learn more about Deco design, I recently visited Los Angeles' City Hall--built in 1928--to see a full read more

In my last Fashion in Film post, I talked about how costumes can reveal a lot about what a character is like and what they’re feeling.  Now let’s move to the other end of the spectrum where the costumes might not be as insightful, but perfectly represent what the movie was supposed to b read more

To describe classic 1930’s cinema, one would have to include a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing number.  Top Hat is one of their iconic classics, the first created exclusively to feature this pair.  With catchy musical numbers, great use of Astaire’s fast feet and comedic plot based on mistake read more

Art deco hotel Tapping steps on the ceiling Dancing cheek to cheek Image Source read more

Lately I've really been enjoying the comfort of movies from the 1930s.  It's no wonder.  That was another time in our nation's history when we struggled through an economic crisis--in their case, the Great Depression--and yet there was still so much optimism reflected in the movies.   read more