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(mil play "Gay Divorce") (uncreded). 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 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.

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The Gay Divorcee: Directed by Mark Sandrich. Wh Fred Astaire, Gger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton. A woman thks a flirtg man is the -rponnt her lawyer has hired to expede her divorce." data-id="ma * betty grable in the gay divorcee *

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. 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. 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.

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) After Berman chose to produce The Gay Divorce himself, he asked Cole Porter to wre new songs for the film but was turned down.

""The Gay Divorcee" is the tablishg mil of Astaire and Rogers. He was fely one of the bt supportg edians of the 1930s and 1940s, other Astaire and Rogers mils, and movi like "Lost Horizon", "Holiday", "Here Com Mr Jordan" and "Arsenic and Old Lace" one song was retaed for the filmic versn of "The Gay Divorcee".

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The censors even crashed down on the stage's origal tle "The Gay Divorce".

This is one of the fotten mils of the time which has 8/10CalystaJan 22, 2000Contribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentBy what name was The Gay Divorcee (1934) officially released India English? EdDon't Let It Bother You(1934)Mic and Lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry RevelDance performed by Fred AstaireA Needle In a Haystack(1934)Mic and Lyrics by Con Conrad and Herb MagidsonSong and dance performed by Fred AstaireLet's K-nock K-ne(1931)Mic and Lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry RevelSong performed by Betty Grable and Edward Everett HortonDance performed by Betty Grable, Edward Everett Horton, chosNight and Day(1932)Mic and Lyrics by Cole PorterPlayed durg the openg credsSong and dance performed by Fred Astaire, Gger RogersThe Contental(1934)Mic and Lyrics by Con Conrad and Herb MagidsonSong performed by Fred Astaire, Gger Rogers, Erik Rhos, Lillian MilDance performed by Fred Astaire, Gger Rogers, chosThe Contental(1934)Mic by Con ConradInstmental repriseDance performed by Fred Astaire, Gger RogersContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentTop GapBy what name was The Gay Divorcee (1934) officially released India English?

The Gay Divorcee (1934)34 of 64Betty Grable and Edward Everett Horton The Gay Divorcee (1934)PeopleBetty Grable, Edward Everett HortonTlThe Gay Divorcee. Somehow, "The Gay Divorcée" is one of their bt llaboratn. After their h dancg of the "Car" "Flyg Down the R, " RKO gave the teamg of Fred Astaire and Gger Rogers a star role "The Gay Divorcée" 1934.

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"The Gay Divorcée" was based on a Broadway mil (of which the only number retaed is "Night and Day") and appears that a few of s plot vic were adopted later Astaire-Rogers films as well. The superb Fred and Gger seri always end wh a big, big set piece where the two of them uld dance, and 'The Gay Divorce(e)' is no exceptn. They're ably supported by Edward Everett Horton (as 'Aunt' Egbert), Alice Brady (the towerg matriach, Rogers' nt), Eric Blore (as an irratg waer who lik talkg about rocks and playg wh words), Erik Rhos (as a daft Italian), and Betty Grable (as a hotel gut who has a terrific number wh Horton, 'Let's K-knock K-kne') you might gus, the story revolv around a divorce, which might be a gay one ( the 1930s fn of the word, of urse), and, as so often this seri, mistaken inti.

The Gay Divorcée is the answer to the trivia qutn of which of Fred Astaire's and Gger Rogers's is one that Fred Astaire had prevly done on Broadway. When Astaire did on Broadway, the Cole Porter mil had been entled The Gay Divorce.

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