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Contents:

• THE GAY DIVORCEE
• THE GAY DIVORCEE
• THE GAY DIVORCEE - SONGS
• GAY DIVORCE
• GAY DIVORCE, MIL
• NIGHT AND DAY, SONG (OM THE GAY DIVORCEE)
• STAGE: PORTER SONGS IN 'GAY DIVORCE'

THE GAY DIVORCEE

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Based on the mil The Gay Divorce, book by Dwight Taylor, mil adaptatn by Kenh Webb and Samuel Hoffenste, mic and lyrics by Cole Porter (New York, 29 Nov 1932).

A classic pairg of one of the Hollywood mil's most famo upl, The Gay Divorcee (1934) was the send film team-up of Fred Astaire and Gger Rogers and follows the tratg efforts of Amerin dancer Guy Holn (Astaire) to woo an unhappily married woman, Mimi Glossop (Rogers), who's the procs of divorcg her adbeat hband.

THE GAY DIVORCEE

The batn of smashg mil numbers and loopy ic cint The Gay Divorcee is bt exemplified by the film's openg number ("Don't Let It Bother You") at a Paris nightclub floorshow, where a bevy of betiful dam on a rotatg stage make ty lady hand puppets dance chos le synchronizatn. Other dance numbers The Gay Divorcee prove more reprentative of the magic Astaire/Rogers touch. Meant to palize on their succs wh Flyg Down to R (1933), The Gay Divorcee was the first time the team's ne llaboratns that they received top billg after havg only sendary rol R.

THE GAY DIVORCEE - SONGS

Oddly enough, the amount of time the uple spent actually dancg The Gay Divorcee totals a meager 10 mut. Director Mark Sandrich's film was actually based on a Broadway mil by Dwight Taylor and Cole Porter lled The Gay Divorce which Astaire, Erik Rhos and Eric Blore all appeared.

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Hollywood's censorship-prone Hays Admistratn sisted that the tle be changed to The Gay Divorcee wh the strange reasong that divorce uld not be a happy.

Consired one of the bt Deprsn-era mils, The Gay Divorcee was nomated for a slew of Amy Awards and won the first Bt Song Osr® for that tchy tune, "The Contental.

A publicy stunt for The Gay Divorcee which RKO anized "Contental" monstratns and parti never really helped the dance tch on, but one thg that extravagant number did start a fad. mil play The Gay Divorce by Dwight Taylor and Cole Porter.

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The origal movie on which this mil was based was lled "The Gay Divorce", but bee of problems arisg om the sensor, was renamed "The Gay Divorcee" (one 'e' add) for the silver screen. The mil The Gay Divorce was based on the unproduced play An Adorable Adventure by J. The workg tle of the film was The Gay Divorce.

In his tobgraphy, Fred Astaire claims that director Mark Sandrich told him that the tle The Gay Divorcee was selected bee the stud "thought was a more attractive-soundg tle, centered around a girl. " Morn sourc claim that stud executiv changed the word "divorce" to "divorcee" bee, while they believed that a divorcee uld be gay, a divorce uld not.

NIGHT AND DAY, SONG (OM THE GAY DIVORCEE)

When RKO's actg productn head, Pandro Berman, suggted that The Gay Divorce, then a h play on Broadway, be ed as a follow-up to Rad Cy Revels, Lou Brock, who had produced Flyg Down to R and was slated to produce the follow-up pictur, ridiculed the ia. ) After Berman chose to produce The Gay Divorce himself, he asked Cole Porter to wre new songs for the film but was turned down. Read more about this topic: The Gay Divorcee.

Gay Divorce gui sectns. Gay Divorce was a mil edy wh a book by Dwight Taylor and mic by Cole Porter. Gay Divorcee opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on November 29, 1932.

The tle was also changed to The Gay Divorcée, to echo the earlier h The Merry Widow. An oil patg of objects associated wh the marriag and divorc of members of The Gay Divorce: a Uhl tck, a Gucci loafer, two red tulips, an unlocked BDSM llar, a baseball glove, a sailboat, a US passport, and a spilled bottle of nail polish.

STAGE: PORTER SONGS IN 'GAY DIVORCE'

The Gay Divorce is a band of real-life queers who got gay married and gay divorced, led by poser Ethan Philbrick, who me together durg a panmic to wre songs about gettg to and out of state-sanctned timacy the 21st century. Throughout Febary 2021, The Gay Divorce streamed their album of songs over the toll-ee number 1-855-GAY-DIVO.

In a moment when many people are tryg to figure out how to get out of suatns that are no longer workg or keep gog after the end of somethg, The Gay Divorce approach their experience wh marriage and divorce as potentially stctive. A billboard advertisg The Gay Divorcee's tollee number, stalled at the rner of Atlantic Avenue and Classon Avenue for the month of Febary 2021.

An animated portra of The Gay Divorce by Joshua Thomas Lieberman. An animated grid portra of the eight members of The Gay Divorce by Joshua Thomas Lieberman. The middle of the grid says, “The Gay Divorce!