The Gay Divorcee (1934) - Turner Classic Movi

Contents:

• NIGHT AND DAY, SONG (OM THE GAY DIVORCEE)
• NIGHT AND DAY, SONG (OM "GAY DIVORCE")
• GAY DIVORCEE, THE (1934) - (MOVIE CLIP) NIGHT AND DAY
• THE GAY DIVORCEE
• NIGHT AND DAY [FROM GAY DIVORCE]
• STAGE: PORTER SONGS IN 'GAY DIVORCE'
• NIGHT AND DAY LYRICS - GAY DIVORCE, THE
• GAY DIVORCE: NIGHT AND DAY

NIGHT AND DAY, SONG (OM THE GAY DIVORCEE)

" Taken om the 1932 mil Gay Divorce, the song was first sung by Fred Astaire. All of 51-mut to the picture, Fred Astaire as Guy and Gger Rogers as Mimi fally dance, troduced by his vol on the already popular Cole Porter tune, their first number their send film together, The Gay Divorceè,, 1934.

Gay Divorcee, The - (Origal Trailer). An Osr for Bt Song went to "The Contental" the Astaire-Rogers mil The Gay Divorcee (1934). Gay Divorcee, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) The Contental.

NIGHT AND DAY, SONG (OM "GAY DIVORCE")

After an elaborate buildup, Fred Astaire as Guy and Gger Rogers as Mimi, the tle character, beg the big productn number staged by Dave Gould, to the origal song by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson, the uple’s first top-billed feature om RKO, The Gay Divorceè, 1934. Gay Divorcee, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) A Third Party Might Spoil This.

Sexier than their average meet-cute, Amerin England Mimi (Gger Rogers) managg dotty nt Hortense (Alice Brady), trouble wh Ctoms, when jt-land fellow Yank and entertaer Guy (Fred Astaire) happens by, their first top-billed outg, The Gay Divorceè, 1934.

Gay Divorcee, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Let's K-nock K-ne. Holy w, that blon is 17-year old Betty Grable, all-but solicg ept Amerin lawyer Egbert (Edward Everett Horton), at an English rort, cueg a novelty number to the song by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, pl a weak explanatn for pal Fred Astaire, The Gay Divorcee, 1934.

GAY DIVORCEE, THE (1934) - (MOVIE CLIP) NIGHT AND DAY

Gay Divorcee, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Let It Bother You.

THE GAY DIVORCEE

After a mil openg troducg the Mack Gordon and Harry Revel origal song, pals Guy and Egbert (Fred Astaire, Edward Everett Horton) n to trouble at a Paris nightspot, Pl Porsi the owner, The Gay Divorceè, 1934, the first picture which Astaire and Gger Rogers shared top billg.

“Night and Day” buted the 1932 mil, The Gay Divorce, and was the only song om the mil clud the 1934 film adaptatn, The Gay Divorcee. The persistent beat of the note builds throughout the verse, mirrorg the longg and yearng between the lovers The Gay Divorce. Though Porter was eply love wh his wife, he was also volved numero brief, but timate, homosexual affairs.

NIGHT AND DAY [FROM GAY DIVORCE]

And most people who live their liv, whether they’re a heterosexual or homosexual, fd themselv fatuated a great al. 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.

STAGE: PORTER SONGS IN 'GAY DIVORCE'

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.

NIGHT AND DAY LYRICS - GAY DIVORCE, THE

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.

The Gay Divorcee - The Gay Divorcee.

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.

GAY DIVORCE: NIGHT AND DAY

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.

) 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 DIVORCE, '' 1932, was Fred Astaire's last Broadway show.