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1935 Comedy
Produced by Horace Hardwick
CHEEK TO CHEEK
in the style of Ella Fitzgerald
Backing track
An American dancer, Jerry Travers comes to London to start in a show produced by the bumbling Horace Hardwick. While practising a tap dance routine in his hotel bedroom, he awakens Dale Tremont on the floor below. She storms upstairs to complain, whereupon Travers fall hopelessly in love with her and proceeds to pursue her all over London. Dale mistakenly believes he is married to her friend Madge, who is actually Hardwick's long-suffering wife. Following the success of Jerry's opening night in London, he follows Dale to Venice, where she is visiting Madge and modelling the gowns of Alberto Beddini, a dandified Italian fashion designer with a penchant for malapropisms. Jerry proposes to Dale, who is disgusted that her friend's husband could behave in such a manner and agrees instead to marry Alberto. Fortunately, Bates, Horace's meddling English valet, disguises himself as a priest and conducts the ceremony. On a trip in a gondola, Jerry manages to convince Dale and they return to the hotel where the previous confusion is rapidly cleared up. The reconciled couple dance off into the Venetian sunset, to the tune of "The Piccolino".[4]
Produced by Horace Hardwick
CHEEK TO CHEEK
in the style of Ella Fitzgerald
Backing track
An American dancer, Jerry Travers comes to London to start in a show produced by the bumbling Horace Hardwick. While practising a tap dance routine in his hotel bedroom, he awakens Dale Tremont on the floor below. She storms upstairs to complain, whereupon Travers fall hopelessly in love with her and proceeds to pursue her all over London. Dale mistakenly believes he is married to her friend Madge, who is actually Hardwick's long-suffering wife. Following the success of Jerry's opening night in London, he follows Dale to Venice, where she is visiting Madge and modelling the gowns of Alberto Beddini, a dandified Italian fashion designer with a penchant for malapropisms. Jerry proposes to Dale, who is disgusted that her friend's husband could behave in such a manner and agrees instead to marry Alberto. Fortunately, Bates, Horace's meddling English valet, disguises himself as a priest and conducts the ceremony. On a trip in a gondola, Jerry manages to convince Dale and they return to the hotel where the previous confusion is rapidly cleared up. The reconciled couple dance off into the Venetian sunset, to the tune of "The Piccolino".[4]
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