Top Hat

Astaire’s feline inverted-triangle face smiles atop a black swallow-tailed body undulating across the screen; he creates an exotic strangeness, juxtaposed with Ginger Rogers’s level-headed simplicity.

In short, perfection.

If you want only one Astaire-Rogers musical, Top Hat is obligatory.

Finally, thanks more to Fred Astaire than any other single influence, the character of musicomedy in the cinema has now completely changed.

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.

This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form.

Good-natured, warm-hearted and very witty, this is a movie to treasure for its sumptuous Art Deco design and the pairing of its principal players.

One of the cleverest of the musical comedies of the '30s, as well as, arguably, Astaire and Rogers' greatest collaboration.

Tops everything that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have done, and clicks as the gladdest, smoothest, truestto-medium movie musical ever made.

The dancing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers is one of the most agreeable sights of civilization. This has been said before - possibly in this column - but that isn't any good reason for not saying it again.