Top Hat was the most successful picture of Astaire and Rogers’ partnership (and Astaire’s second most successful picture after Easter Parade), achieving second place in worldwide box-office receipts for 1935. While some dance critics maintain that Swing Time contained a finer set of dances, Top Hat remains, to this day, the partnership’s best-known work. Continue reading
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Out and About with Walter Rutledge: Clive Thompson The Early Years- Life In Jamaica
By Walter Rutledge
Clive Thompson literally began performing before he worn his first pair of long pants.