TOP HAT / SHALL WE DANCE Double Feature Ginger Rogers at 100 July 16, 2011

Saturday, July 16 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: TOP HAT, 1935, Warner Bros., 101 min. Dir. Mark Sandrich. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers achieve sheer cinematic perfection as strangers who meet in a London hotel and are nearly broken apart by confusion over mistaken identities. [35mm]
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SHALL WE DANCE, 1937, Warner Bros., 109 min. Dir. Mark Sandrich. Fred Astaire is an American ballet dancer who falls for a tap-dancing Ginger Rogers, who does not return his affections. The laughter begins when a publicity stunt is launched to prove they are married. George and Ira Gershwin score their first Hollywood musical, featuring songs “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off” and “You Can’t Take That Away From Me.” [35mm]
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