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Auction History Result 5j593 TOP HAT candid 10x15 still '35 cameramen & outside of set created for the Piccolino sequence! Date Sold 6/4/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 10" x 15" Movie Still (Learn More) Top Hat, the 1935 Mark Sandrich romantic singing-and-dancing musical comedy ("Ladies and Gentlemen, here's a Show!"; "America's happy dancing stars are here in a glorious show!"; "See them dance the reckless 'Piccolino,' this gay nation's new ballroom adventure!"; "... Hear the songs you can't forget!"; "The king and queen of rhythm on a joyous jamboree!"; "Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin"; "See them dance the sensational Piccolino"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Donald Meek, and Lucille Ball (in a bit part as a flower clerk). Note that this was the one of the nine wonderful movies that Astaire and Rogers made between 1933 and 1939 (they made one final movie, "The Barkleys of Broadway", fourteen years later in 1949). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the still shows a great candid image of the set created for the dancing of the "Piccolino", the dance created by Fred Astaire. Note that this is an incredibly elaborate set, complete with a pool and a gondola, and you can see above the set where all the lights are and the cameramen suspended above the action! Note that I have never before seen one of these "double stills"! It consists of two 8" x 10" stills that show the left half and the right half of the exact same image, and the blank borders were trimmed off and the stills were attached on the back with a cloth tape, thus creating a 10" x 15" double still. We were consigned this still and another one similar, and it is being auctioned separately! Also note that a paper snipe was glued to the back of the still, and then folded over to the front. This was done rather than gluing the snipe to the back, so that the snipe could be unfolded and the still could be displayed with the snipe unfolded, which would let moviegoers read the information on the snipe in the lobby (and of course, the snipe would be folded backwards, so it would not show). This was done with many stills of the 1930s, but often, the snipes are either partially or completely lost, because it is easier for them to be torn off. UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, THE SNIPE DOES NOT HAVE ANY EFFECT ON THE FRONT OF THE STILL! Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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