Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 2 wins & 6 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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The plot is involving, especially as it builds to its seemingly impossible-to-solve finale.
– Douglas Pratt,
Hollywood Reporter,
7 Sep 2005
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Because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
20 Jan 2006
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The third Astaire-Rogers movie and one of the best.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
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This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
11 Jan 2008
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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.