Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails

Favorite Films: Vivacious Lady (1938)

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Swing Time (1936)

∟ starring fred astaire and ginger rogers // music and lyrics by irving berlin

New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town!

Funny Face (1957) dir. Stanley Donen

Chance is the fool’s name for fate.

Are you going to mind your own businesses, or must I really give you a piece of my mind? Oh, I couldn’t take the last piece. 

Scottie, do you believe that someone out of the past - someone dead - can enter and take possession of a living being?

Something wrong with your eyes? Yes, they’re sensitive to questions. 

Nobody owes a thing to Kitty Foyle, except Kitty Foyle.

You know, retire young, work old, come back and work when I know what I’m working for, does that make any sense? 

Aloft! There’s no chains to hold you now. Break out those sails and watch them fill with the wind that’s carrying us all to freedom! 

Do you happen to have a pair of birds that are… just friendly?

Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, ring them with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them. Hello, America, hang on to your lights: they’re the only lights left in the world! 

Why didn’t you tell me you could dance like that?

We’ll show ‘em a thing or three! 

music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green