High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Top Hat is a 1935 screwball comedy musical film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) to win her affection. The film also features Eric Blore as Hardwick`s valet Bates, Erik Rhodes as Alberto Beddini, a fashion designer and rival for Dale`s affections, and Helen Broderick as Hardwick`s long-suffering wife Madge.