Assessment:
Marvellous Astaire-Rogers musical, with a more or less realistic London supplanted by a totally artificial Venice, and show stopping numbers in a style which is no more separated by amusing plot complications lightly handled by a team of deft farceurs.

Significant production contributions:

w Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott  d Mark Sandrich  ph David Abel, Vernon L. Walker  m Irving Berlin  ad Van Nest Polglase, Carroll Clark  ch Hermes Pan

Significant performances:
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes


From the Film Guide:
Year: 1935
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Everyone, bar the producer, gets italics.

Studio: RKO
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