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Top Hat, White Tie and Tails. " Top Hat, White Tie and Tails " is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire. The song title refers to the formal wear required on a party invitation: top hat, white tie, and a tailcoat. Popular recordings in 1935 were by Fred Astaire and by Ray ...
Top hat. Austin Lane Crothers, 46th Governor of Maryland (1908–1912), wearing a top hat. A top hat (also called a high hat, or, informally, a topper) is a tall, flat-crowned hat traditionally associated with formal wear in Western dress codes, meaning white tie, morning dress, or frock coat. Traditionally made of black silk or sometimes grey ...
Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman's Orchestra singles chronology. " Night And Day / Stormy Weather Victor 1932 re-releases". (1934) " No Strings (I'm Fancy Free) ". (1935) "Isn't This A Lovely Day". (1935) " No Strings (I'm Fancy Free) " is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire.
Top Hat. (musical) Top Hat the Musical is a 2011 stage musical based on the 1935 film of the same name, featuring music & lyrics by Irving Berlin with additional orchestration by Chris Walker. The show opened on 16 August 2011 at the Milton Keynes Theatre, touring the United Kingdom before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in London 's West End.
Cheek to Cheek. by Irving Berlin, Inc., New York [1] "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" " Cheek to Cheek " is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1934–35, [3] specifically for Fred Astaire, the star of his new musical, Top Hat, co-starring Ginger Rogers. [4] In the movie, Astaire sings the song to Rogers as they dance.
Fred Astaire with Johnny Greene's Orchestra singles chronology. "Cheek To Cheek". (1935) " Isn't This a Lovely Day? (1935) "Let's Face The Music And Dance". (1936) " Isn't This a Lovely Day? " is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire in the scene where his and Ginger Rogers ...
Later, movies such as Top Hat (1935) became the first of a series of distinctive film musicals by Berlin starring performers Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Ginger Rogers, and Alice Faye. Top Hat featured a brand new score, as did several more, including Follow the Fleet (1936), On the Avenue (1937), Carefree (1938), and Second Fiddle ...
The film earned $1,532,000 in the US and Canada and $1,175,000 elsewhere making a profit of $945,000. This was slightly down on that for Top Hat but was still among RKO's most popular movies of the decade. [1] It was the 14th most popular film at the British box office in 1935–1936. [22]