TCM Greatt Classic Film Collectn: Astaire & Rogers (The Gay Divorcee / Top Hat / Swg Time / Shall We Dance) : Astaire, Fred, Rogers, Gger: Movi & TV
Contents:
- THE GAY DIVORCEE
- ' THE GAY DIVORCEE,' WH FRED ASTAIRE AND GGER ROGERS, AT THE MIC HALL -- 'REDHEAD.'
- THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934) REVIEW, WH GGER ROGERS AND FRED ASTAIRE
- THE GAY DIVORCE
- THE GAY DIVORCEE DVD AUTHENTIC REGN 1 STARRG GGER ROGERS & FRED ASTAIRE 1934
- TCM GREATT CLASSIC FILM COLLECTN: ASTAIRE & ROGERS (THE GAY DIVORCEE / TOP HAT / SWG TIME / SHALL WE DANCE)
- "THE GAY DIVORCEE" FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS TUESDAY 10:00 P.M. EASTERN TCM
THE GAY DIVORCEE
The Gay Divorcee (1934) st and crew creds, cludg actors, actrs, directors, wrers and more. * the gay divorcee fred and ginger *
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.
' THE GAY DIVORCEE,' WH FRED ASTAIRE AND GGER ROGERS, AT THE MIC HALL -- 'REDHEAD.'
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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.
THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934) REVIEW, WH GGER ROGERS AND FRED ASTAIRE
The Gay Divorcee DVD Authentic Regn 1 Starrg Gger Rogers & Fred Astaire 1934 : Movi & TV * the gay divorcee fred and ginger *
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.
THE GAY DIVORCE
Gger Rogers, Amerin dancer and actrs who was bt known as the partner of Fred Astaire a seri of movie mils, cludg The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Top Hat (1935). She also won an Osr for playg the tle role Kty Foyle (1940) and later starred Roxie Hart (1942). * the gay divorcee fred and ginger *
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. 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.
THE GAY DIVORCEE DVD AUTHENTIC REGN 1 STARRG GGER ROGERS & FRED ASTAIRE 1934
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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.
TCM GREATT CLASSIC FILM COLLECTN: ASTAIRE & ROGERS (THE GAY DIVORCEE / TOP HAT / SWG TIME / SHALL WE DANCE)
) 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, ' Wh Fred Astaire and Gger Rogers, at the Mic Hall -- 'Redhead. For expert stctn nsult the agile team of Fred Astaire and Gger Rogers "The Gay Divorcee, " which put everybody a bright humor at the Rad Cy Mic Hall yterday.
"THE GAY DIVORCEE" FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS TUESDAY 10:00 P.M. EASTERN TCM
From "The Gay Divorce" only one song remas, Cole Porter's "Night and Day. Astaire and "The Gay Divorcee" at their bt when he is adjtg his cravat to an elaborate dance route or sayg the lic thgs wh his flashg feet that a librettist would have difficulty puttg to words.