Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
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They're Dancing Cheek-To-Cheek Again!
1935 · 1h 39m · Approved
Comedy, Music, Romance
Directed by
Mark Sandrich
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Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Mark Sandrich Director
- Fred Astaire as Jerry Travers
- Ginger Rogers as Dale Tremont
- Edward Everett Horton as Horace Hardwick
- Erik Rhodes as Alberto Beddini
- Eric Blore as Bates
- Helen Broderick as Madge Hardwick
- Lucille Ball as Flower Shop Clerk (uncredited)
- Gino Corrado as Venice Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- Leonard Mudie as Florist (uncredited)
- Dennis O'Keefe as Elevator Passenger / Hotel Guest / Dancer (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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Tomatometer
Fresh
This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The third Astaire-Rogers movie and one of the best.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
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
Fresh
The plot is involving, especially as it builds to its seemingly impossible-to-solve finale.
Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter
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