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THE GAY DIVORCEE

The Gay DivorceeEdThis was the first film to w an Amy Award for Bt Origal Song, "The Contental". Osr statuett were won by Con Conrad (mic) and Herb Magidson (lyrics) as 1934 was the first year when an Osr for this tegory was stage mil on which this movie was based was tled "The Gay Divorce, " but bee of objectns om the censor, the tle of the film was changed to "The Gay Divorcee.

MIL MONDAY: THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934)

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Erik Rhos, who plays Toti, repeats his stage role om the Broadway mil "Gay Divorce", on which this is based. " But when the crics praised the Astaire-Rogers pairg "R, " Astaire was persuad, and he and Rogers ma the send film their partnership, _The Gay Divorcee (1934)_ (QV).

Although "Night and Day" is the only song retaed om the show "Gay Divorce" (on which the movie is based), the plotle remaed basilly the same on stage and film. The origal mil on which this movie was based was lled "The Gay Divorce", but bee of objectns om the censor, the tle of the film was changed to "The Gay Divorcee" (one 'e' add).

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. 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 - 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. 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 Divorcee Photos.

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