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American performer Jerry Travers (Fred Astaire) is in London to work for lovable producer Horace Hardwick. Jerry starts dancing up a storm in his hotel room annoying Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) in the room below. She goes upstairs to complain. Jerry falls for her immediately while she mistakes him for Horace who is married to her friend Madge. He follows her and the Hardwicks to Venice where she's modeling for Italian designer Alberto Beddini.This has Fred and Ginger at their finest with music from Irving Berlin. It can't miss. "I'm in heaven." The story is a simple comedy of errors and misunderstandings. It's fun enough and good enough. The dance numbers are good. There are big ones but it's still the simple Fred and Ginger dance that is the best. This is a nice example of a good ole song and dance from that era.
Smoreni Zmaj
If you are fan of comedy, but tired of vulgar humor we see on big screen these days, tired of retarded grimaces like Jim Carrey's or laughing to other peoples misfortune, take a look on comedies from first half of 20th century. Nowadays comedies are nowhere close to their level in any possible way. Fred Aster and beautiful Ginger Rogers in romantic comedy of mistaken identity. Of course, when you see Aster in leading role it is obvious that it is musical. But even if you do not like musicals, and I certainly do not, amount of hilarious misunderstandings and twists and the way this movie will cause roars of benevolent laughter and improves mood even on depressive rainy days will be more than enough for you to disregard your bigotry towards musicals and even boring scenes of dancing and singing will pass you by unnoticed. And they are not boring at all, believe me, cause chemistry between Fred and Ginger is magical.
jacobs-greenwood
One of the best musicals ever, and perhaps Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's best film as well. Edward Everett Horton and Eric Blore are hilarious. Plot is rather thin though, with comic mix-ups moving it along enough to display great songs and dance numbers.Astaire plays a dancer (imagine that!) named Jerry that's working for producer Hardwick (Horton). He meets Rogers when he interrupts her sleep, but she falls for him anyway. However, he hasn't given her his name so she assumes it's Hardwick, since Jerry is staying in Hardwick's room. Then she finds out that Hardwick is married (to Helen Broderick's character) and is disillusioned. Wonder if it all works out in the end?Directed by Mark Sandrich, the credited writers are Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor, who wrote the story. Lucille Ball and Donald Meek are among those who appear uncredited.Nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, its Art Direction, Dance Direction (for "Piccolino" and "Top Hat"), and Irving Berlin's Song "Cheek to Cheek" (#15 on AFI's 100 Top Movie Songs of All Time) also received Oscar nominations. The film was added to the National Film Registry in 1990. #15 on AFI's 25 Greatest Movie Musicals list.
Luis Eduardo Galindo
It is always a pleasure to watch Fred Astairs at his best.Someone once compared the Martini cocktail as Fred Astair in a glass.. so I fixed myself one to match this movie, the first zips were great but it all turned flat soon afterward.The first scene is very promising as we recognize an energetic Fred Astair in a ¨silence¨ gentlemen room in London, those first 5 minutes were worth the ambiance of a Fred Astair/Martini fansuddenly we're taken to the hotel scene and the first impressive tap dancing and the fantastic 30's sounds flow over, one more zip to my drink is welcome...until we're flashed by this ¨3 stooges¨ plot of mis-identification and hide and seek over different rooms. completely disappointed till the point of putting the rest of the Dry Gin back in the bottle till I get another Fred Astair movie...The sets are ridiculousy repetitive, all handed in same boring-to-eye colour and over crafted Greek style, no matter it was London or Venice, you can tell the same manifacture...the hide and seek in between the misencounters were silly repetitive in the gaps of the few great dancing scenes.Dancing Scene: great techniques and beautiful music arrangements, but would have worked more on separate film cuts for cinema pre-view entertainment, not a movie.Madge and Horace weird relationship is worthless to mention as props as any of the Greek decorations in the flat decorated rooms, almost annoyng.it is sad to acknowledge that this is just a pre-fab plot less long sketch to promote Fred Astaris and Ginger Rogers theatrical talents. not a real movie.
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