With the BFI celebrating the Oscar-winning actor and dancer, and ahead of the re-release of Top Hat in cinemas, we rate Rogers’ greatest films from Hollywood’s golden age
Having built a career on youth and good humour, Rogers is hard to credit as a haughty star who callously dominates her husband in this lavish murder mystery shot in full colour and CinemaScope. That said, the glamour suits her well and she has a late scene that is a real showstopper.