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The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 Amerin mil film directed by Mark Sandrich and starrg Fred Astaire and Gger Rogers. It also featur Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, and Erik Rhos, and was based on the Broadway mil Gay Divorce, wrten by Dwight Taylor om an unproduced play by J. The Hays Office sisted on the name change, om "Gay Divorce" to "The Gay Divorcee", believg that while a divorcee uld be gay or lighthearted, would be unseemly to allow a divorce to appear so.

He claims that director, Mark Sandrich, told him that The Gay Divorcee was selected as the new name bee the stud "thought was a more attractive-soundg tle, centered around a girl. In the Uned Kgdom, the film was released wh the origal name of the play, Gay Divorce.

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 film about an Amerin woman who travels to England to seek a divorce om her absentee hband, where she meets - and falls for - a dashg performer. Wrten by Gee Marn Jr., Dorothy Yost, and Edward Kfman, based on the 1932 mil Gay Divorce by Dwight Taylor. The Gay Divorcee quot at the Inter Movie Database.

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2006 marks the arrival of five Fred Astaire and Gger Rogers films (Flyg Down to R, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Careee, and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle) on DVD after the first five were released 2005. The Gay Divorcee (1934) is their bt early picture, a loose adaptatn of Astaire's stage show, The Gay Divorce. 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.

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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.

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.