Top Hat Quotes

Top Hat is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Top Hat ended in 1970.

It features Pandro S. Berman as producer, Irving Berlin (songs) in charge of musical score, and David Abel (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Top Hat is distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.

The cast includes: Ginger Rogers as Dale Tremont, Fred Astaire as Jerry Travers, Edward Everett Horton as Horace Hardwick, Ginger Rogers as Dale Treemont, Erik Rhodes as Alberto Beddini, Helen Broderick as Madge Hardwick, and Eric Blore as Bates.

Top Hat Quotes

Ginger Rogers as Dale Tremont

• (Ginger Rogers) "Who was his dam?"
• (Fred Astaire) "What?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "I said, who was his dam?"
• (Fred Astaire) "I don't know miss, he didn't give a --"

• (Ginger Rogers) "How could I have ever fallen in love with a man like you."
• (Fred Astaire) "She loves me."

• (Ginger Rogers) "I hate men. I hate you. I hate all men."

• (Ginger Rogers) "What is this strange power you have over horses?"
• (Fred Astaire) "Horsepower?"

• (Ginger Rogers) "I dropped up from the room below where I've been trying to get some sleep."
• (Fred Astaire) "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize I was disturbing you. You see, every once in a while I suddenly find myself -- dancing."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, I suppose it's some kind of an affliction."

• (Ginger Rogers) "Madge, have you any objections if I scare your husband so that he'll never look at another woman?"
• (Helen Broderick) "Dale, no husband is ever too scared to look."

Erik Rhodes as Alberto Beddini

• (Erik Rhodes) "Never again will I allow WOMEN to wear my dresses."

• (Erik Rhodes) "I promised my dresses that I would take them to Venice and that you would be in them."

• (Erik Rhodes) "'Come ahead. stop. Stop being a sap. stop. You can even bring Alberto. stop. My husband is stopping at your hotel. stop. when do you start. stop.' I cannot understand who wrote this."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Sounds like Gertrude Stein."

Fred Astaire as Jerry Travers

• (Fred Astaire) "I think I feel an attack coming on. There's only one thing that can stop me."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Why, you must tell me what it is."
• (Fred Astaire) "My nurses always put their arms around me."

• (Fred Astaire) "In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course."

• (Fred Astaire) "All is fair in love and war, and this is revolution."

• (Fred Astaire) "She's been mistaking me for you this whole time."
• (Helen Broderick) "Well, no wonder she said he was interesting."
• (Edward Everett Horton) "Yes, no wonder -- I resent that."

• (Fred Astaire) "Are you afraid of thunder?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, no. It's just the noise."
• (Fred Astaire) "You know what thunder is, don't you?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Of course. It's something about the air."
• (Fred Astaire) "No, no. When a clumsy cloud from here meets a fluffy little cloud from there, he billows towards her. She scurries away and he scuds right up to her. She cries a little and there you have you showers. He comforts her. They spark. That's the lightning. They kiss. Thunder."

Helen Broderick as Madge Hardwick

• (Helen Broderick) "My dear, when you're as old as I am, you take your men as you find them; if you can find them."

Edward Everett Horton as Horace Hardwick

• (Edward Everett Horton) "You mean to sit there and tell me that that girl slapped your face in front of all those people for nothing?"
• (Fred Astaire) "Well, what would you have done? Sold tickets?"

• (Edward Everett Horton) "What kind of plane?"
• (Fred Astaire) "One with wings."

• (Edward Everett Horton) "Mr. Travers is in trouble. He has practically put his foot right into a hornets' nest."
• (Eric Blore) "But hornets' nests grow on trees, sir."
• (Edward Everett Horton) "Never mind that. We have got to do something."
• (Eric Blore) "What about rubbing it with butter, sir?"
• (Edward Everett Horton) "You blasted fool, you can't rub a girl with butter."
• (Eric Blore) "My sister got into a hornets' nest and we rubbed HER with butter, sir."
• (Edward Everett Horton) "That's the wrong treatment, you should've used mud; Never mind that."

• (Edward Everett Horton) "You know how wives are."
• (Fred Astaire) "No I don't. How are they?"

Eric Blore as Bates

• (Eric Blore) "We are Bates."

• (Eric Blore) "Sic transit gloria mundi. "Thus passes the glory of the world.""

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