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They're Dancing Cheek-To-Cheek Again! " |
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Synopsis: Fred Astaire and Ginger
Rogers make it look so darn easy. In this tale Jerry Travers
(Astaire) is a professional dancer who meets, becomes smitten
with and then falls in love with Dale Tremont (Rogers). Ginger
thinks Fred is married rather than single due to mistaken-identities
and misinterprets him she rejects his advances as she thinks
that Horace (played by Horton) is Jerry and Jerry is Horace
who is married. After a series of entanglements, Jerry propose
but gets rejected, Dale ends up marrying Beddini, and Jerry
learns that Dale has been "mistaking him for Horace for
all this time" so he decides to break up her marriage
before it is truly consummated. The plot has some dull moments
but the dancing carries the film throughout. Nominated for
four Academy Awards.
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Fred does his famous solo 'Top Hat' dance routine (along with
the chorus) with his tapping cane to the song 'Top Hat, White
Tie, and Tails,' As well as his show stopping Soft Shoe Tap
dance to "No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)." Fred and
Ginger do what is probably their best dance number on film
to "Cheek to Cheek" with Rogers in that famous blue
Ostrich feather Ball gown. This film also introduces the ballroom
dance called the Piccolino which
is done by using the waist-sashes of the dancers as props. |
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DVD
Version also features: 'Audio
Commentary' by Astaires daughter Mackenzie, 'On Top': Inside
the Success of Top Hat, A comedy short called 'Watch the Birdie'
with Bob Hope and a classic cartoon 'Page Miss Glory' |