I dance myself into your heart

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Movie
German title I dance myself into your heart
Original title Top hat
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1935
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mark Sandrich
script Allan Scott ,
Dwight Taylor
production Pandro S. Berman
music Irving Berlin
camera David Abel
cut William Hamilton
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I dance myself into your heart (Original: Top Hat ) is an American film musical with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers from 1935. The film was produced by RKO .

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The American dancer Jerry Travers is in London preparing a new show. The show's producer, Horace Hardwick, informs him that his wife Madge Hardwick is in Venice and that they are inviting them over for a weekend. Above all, she wants to introduce Jerry to a young girl because she says that Jerry should finally get married. Jerry doesn't think so and expresses this with a tap dance in the Horace hotel suite. This wakes Dale Tremont sleeping under the room. Furious, she storms into the room to end the disturbance. Jerry falls in love with the pretty girl at first sight. The next day he sends her all the flowers the hotel flower shop sells. He also follows Dale every step of the way to keep in touch with her. Among other things, he takes on the role of a coachman who is supposed to take her to a park to ride. During a thunderstorm, the two get closer in a dance pavilion.

Upon her return to the hotel, Dale receives a telegram from her friend Madge Hardwick in Venice, informing her that she should accompany her husband to Venice for the weekend. Dale thinks Jerry is Madge's husband and gets angry because Jerry continues to flirt with her. For this reason, she initially doesn't want to travel to Venice. The fashion designer Alberto Beddini, for whom Dale works as a model and who also advertises her fiercely, persuades her to travel to Venice to open her friend's eyes to her husband.

Jerry, on the other hand, doesn't know about this mix-up, but learns that Dale is the girl Madge wants to introduce him to. In Venice he continues courting Dale. Dale is shocked that Madge is also present. When Jerry Dale proposes marriage, she slaps him because she believes he wants to divorce Madge because of her. But because she has to admit that she has fallen in love with Jerry, she decides to marry Antonio immediately to avoid any further temptation. The ceremony is carried out immediately by a priest summoned by Antonio.

When Dale later finds out who Jerry really is, she naturally regrets this step. However, it turns out that the priest was Horace's disguised valet Bates, who was supposed to supervise Dale on his behalf. So the marriage is invalid, and Dale and Jerry end up getting together after all.

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Top Hat is considered the best film by the dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. This is certainly not because of the story, which is similar to many other Astaire / Rogers films. The Art Deco style furnishings and the camera work by David Abel contributed in particular . Abel is the first cameraman to photograph the color white, which was previously avoided in films, in a wide variety of ways, which also gave the dance scenes great elegance. Irving Berlin's singing numbers also contributed to the film's popularity. The most famous example is the song " Cheek to Cheek ".

The film premiered on August 29, 1935 in New York City. With grossing over $ 3 million, it became the RKO production company's biggest box office hit in the 1930s and saved the company from bankruptcy. The film received four Academy Award nominations in 1936 . In 1990 he was inducted into the National Film Registry .

Music and dance numbers

The music and lyrics of all songs are from Irving Berlin.

  1. Overture - RKO Studio Orchestra during the opening credits.
  2. No Strings (I'm Fancy Free) - sung and danced by Fred Astaire in Horace Suite.
  3. Isn't This a Lovely Day (to Be Caught in the Rain)? - sung and danced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers during the storm in the park's dance pavilion.
  4. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails - sung and danced by Fred Astaire and a choir as part of the show performance by Jerry.
  5. Cheek to Cheek - sung by Fred Astaire, danced by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire during the first ball in Venice.
  6. The Piccolino - sung by Ginger Rogers, danced by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire during the second ball in Venice.
  7. The Piccolino (Reprise) - danced by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire as the finale.
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Reviews

“With perfect dances by Astaire / Rogers and immortal songs by Irving Berlin. Musical staged with charm and elegance, which is considered the highlight of the collaboration between Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Academy Awards 1936

Nominations

German version

The German synchronous editing was created in 1950 by the RKO Synchron department in Berlin. The dubbing was directed by Reinhard W. Noack, the dialogue book was designed by Richard Busch. The German premiere took place on March 31, 1950.

role actor Voice actor
Jerry Travers Fred Astaire Harry Giese and Rudi Schuricke (vocals)
Dale Tremont Ginger Rogers Use Hülper
Horace Hardwick Edward Everett Horton Erich Fiedler
Madge Hardwick Helen Broderick Erna Sellmer
Alberto Beddini Erik Rhodes Karl Meixner
Bates Eric Blore Eduard Bornträger

Trivia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Mueller: Astaire Dancing - The Musical Films . Hamish Hamilton, London 1986, ISBN 0-241-11749-6 .
  2. ↑ Arlene Croce: The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book . WH Allen, London 1972, ISBN 0-491-00159-2 .
  3. ↑ Larry Billman: Fred Astaire - A Bio-bibliography . Greenwood Press, Connecticut 1997, ISBN 0-313-29010-5 .
  4. ↑ imdb.com , accessed October 3, 2015.
  5. ↑ I dance myself into your heart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de ( Memento from October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )