Vio streamg platforms are now petg agast each other for the gayt new movie, “Ex-Hbands.” Amazon won the biddg war for this new edy which was created by Amerin actor Billy Eichner and wrer Pl Rudnick who are both openly gay. Not only will this seri glorify gay relatnships, but also pats divorce as “epic.”
Contents:
- THE GAY DIVORCEE
- THE GAY DIVORCEE
- THE GAY DIVORCEE
- CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE
- ‘OUR SON’ REVIEW: LE EVANS AND BILLY PORTER TURN A GAY DIVORCE AND CTODY BATTLE INTO SAME OLD SAME OLD
- THE GAY DIVORCEE
- THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934) REVIEW, WH GGER ROGERS AND FRED ASTAIRE
- HOW A LRA DERN MOVIE LED TO THIS REAL-LIFE GAY DIVORCE STORY IS ALMOST TOO WILD TO BELIEVE
- NEW 'BIG, GAY DIVORCE COMEDY' COMG TO AMAZON
THE GAY DIVORCEE
Le Evans and Billy Porter star as a gay uple whose marriage ends, sparkg a battle for ctody of their 8-year-old child, 'Our Son.' * gay divorce movie *
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.
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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. 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.
THE GAY DIVORCEE
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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.
CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE
The Gay Divorcee : Fred Astaire, Gger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhos, Eric Blore, Lillian Mil, Charl Coleman, William At, Betty Grable, Norman Asley, Jimmy Aubrey, Mark Sandrich, Dorothy Yost, Dwight Taylor, Edward Kfman, Gee Marn Jr., J. Hartley Manners, Kenh S. Webb, Robert Benchley: Movi & TV * gay divorce movie *
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.
‘OUR SON’ REVIEW: LE EVANS AND BILLY PORTER TURN A GAY DIVORCE AND CTODY BATTLE INTO SAME OLD SAME OLD
"I'm never gog to do half-hour episos of 'Billy on the Street' aga," says Eichner, whose gay rom- 'Bros' is due September. * gay divorce movie *
) 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
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THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934) REVIEW, WH GGER ROGERS AND FRED ASTAIRE
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Audience Reviews for The Gay Divorcee. "The Gay Divorcee" left a se on my face which few pictur today do.
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.
HOW A LRA DERN MOVIE LED TO THIS REAL-LIFE GAY DIVORCE STORY IS ALMOST TOO WILD TO BELIEVE
When Astaire did on Broadway, the Cole Porter mil had been entled The Gay Divorce. Only The Gay Divorcée was he asked to repeat a stage basic plot is still the same, the ual Astaire-Rogers se of mistaken inty.
It's what The Gay Divorcée is remembered for today. It's a rather long, between ten and fifteen mut of screen time, but as magil as everThe Gay Divorce ran for 248 performanc on Broadway durg the 1932- 1933 season.
Even before The Co was place, seemed that the powers that be emed that his work was way too sophistited and nghty to be seen and heard as wh the film beg othy romance stead of social mentary, The Gay Divorcée is still great entertament. Celebratg My (Gay) DivorceMarriage equaly means divorce equaly—and I feel pri, as well as sadns, about my spl om my WhmanEdor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Augt 25, 2013, I said “I do” to Jim, my partner of ne years, who beme my “lawfully wedd hband.
NEW 'BIG, GAY DIVORCE COMEDY' COMG TO AMAZON
I didn’t want to be “gay married”; I wanted to be “married” like any other uple, thank you very much.
Our divorce, I thk, did as much as to legimize marriage equaly as our more: How gay marriage beme a nstutnal rightLike so many other people of my generatn, I never thought I’d be able to marry “my hband” and “to love, re for, and support him, ” as we put our vows. As she explaed later, after other gay male upl town got hched, “I like to thk that my [male] iends who have hbands n fd a ty b of validatn hearg that term applied to their chosen one.