Editing Top Hat (section)

===Box office===
The film opened at [[Radio City Music Hall]] in New York on August 29, 1935<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 28, 1935|title='Diamond Jim' A $45,000 Sparkle on B'way, State Leaps for $35,000|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety119-1935-08#page/n200/mode/1up|page=9|access-date=April 24, 2019}}</ref> and set a house record with a gross of $134,800 in its first week.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=September 18, 1935|title='Hat' Quits M.H. with $345,000, 3d. Week $95,000|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety119-1935-09#page/n136/mode/1up|page=9|access-date=April 24, 2019}}</ref> Twenty-five policemen were deployed to control the crowds.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=September 4, 1935|title=Holiday Ram Helps Set B'way Records|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety119-1935-09#page/n8/mode/1up|page=9|access-date=April 24, 2019}}</ref> In its 3 weeks at the Music Hall, it grossed $350,000.<ref>{{AFI film|id=6707|title=Top Hat}}</ref>  Overall, the film earned rentals of $1,782,000 in the US and Canada and $1,420,000 elsewhere. RKO made a profit of $1,325,000, making it the studio's most profitable film of the 1930s.<ref name="rko"/>

It was the 4th most popular film at the British box office in 1935–36.<ref>Sedgwick, John; Pokorny, Michael (February 2005). "The Film Business in the United States and Britain during the 1930s". ''The Economic History Review'', Vol. 58, No. 1, p. 97.</ref>