Mil Monday: The Gay Divorcee (1934) | Comet Over Hollywood

Contents:

• THE GAY DIVORCEE
• THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934) REVIEW, WH GGER ROGERS AND FRED ASTAIRE
• MIL MONDAY: THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934)
• THE GAY DIVORCEE

THE GAY DIVORCEE

Somehow, "The Gay Divorcée" is one of their bt llaboratn. Walter Plunkett uld do all the field of stume sign, om thrillers like Kg Kong, to Art De mils like Gay Divorcee, to perd piec like The Hunchback of Notre Dame and How the Wt Was Won. They were the stars their next movie The Gay Divorcee.

THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934) REVIEW, WH GGER ROGERS AND FRED ASTAIRE

It was for Jerome Kern and Osr Hammerste’s Showboat starrg Ava Gardner as Julie wh the role of Magnolia gog to the sgg actrs Kathryn Grayson and that of Gaylord to Howard Keel. Plunkett mt have found ironic that he won an Amy Award – his only Osr as turned out – for a Ball scene after havg signed Gone wh the Wd, Ltle Women, Mary of Stland, and Gay Divorcee. The tle of the Broadway show this is based on was lled The Gay Divorce, but the censors were worried that would dite that the procs of divorce uld be a happy, jubilant one.

Instead was mandated that the movie bee The Gay Divorcee, ditg that gettg a divorce may not be fun, but you uld sure have a lot of fun dog .

MIL MONDAY: THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934)

The Gay Divorcee: I Need a Cigarette.

Fred Astaire and Gger Rogers, the famo dancg team, may have gotten their start Flyg Down to R but The Gay Divorcee is their first solo starrg effort, and readily tablish the formula for most of the rt: two charmg people overe obstacl a slight farce until a big song and dance number allows them to waltz to the sunset.

Gay Divorcee me out about three months after the Co beme enforced 1934, and you n tell. She seems nstantly a bad mood, which mak sense for a character seekg a divorce, not so much for someone a light mil edy which she is lerally sold as a gay divorcee.

THE GAY DIVORCEE

The Gay Divorcee is pretty light fare that drags too often for my taste. 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.

“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 Divorcee (1934)36 of 64Gger Rogers The Gay Divorcee (1934)PeopleGger RogersTlThe Gay Divorcee. THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934) The Kg and Queen of 'Car' Stud: RKODirector: Mark SandrichMic by: Samuel Hoffenste, Herb Magidson, Cole Porter, Harry Revel, Kenh S.

Incintally, whereas Fred's characters equently smoked the films, Gger (an ex-smoker after age 25 real life) only smok ROBERTA (1935) first of the seri to feature Gger and Fred as the ma attractn, THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934) is also one of their films wh a more-creative-than-average plot strgg the mil numbers together -- and 's pecially tertg today as a look back at the way marriage laws ed to work. In what was to bee a typil Fred-and-Gger se of mistaken inty, Guy is mistaken for the -rponnt and romantic edy ensu -- even if some of the edy parts seem a ltle too slowly paced at, THE GAY DIVORCEE has s fair share of weakns.

Dpe the slow pots however, THE GAY DIVORCEE do feature an above-par song list, cludg "A Needle a Haystack, " Fred's solo dance on the hearth of his hotel room fireplace, as well as Cole Porter's "Night and Day" () dramatilly and sctively danced by Gger and Fred. Also, THE GAY DIVORCEE was based on a mil Fred had done on Broadway lled The Gay Divorce, but the Hays Office (the film dtry's censorship body) required the name change bee didn't like the sentiment which the play's tle implied.

He was the stud’s heavyweight and me as no surprise when director Mark Sandrich asked Rogers to wear a drs she had worn before The Gay Divorcee. The Gay Divorcee (1934)44 of 64Gger Rogers The Gay Divorcee (1934)PeopleGger RogersTlThe Gay Divorcee.

The Gay Divorcee (1934)61 of 64Gger Rogers The Gay Divorcee (1934)PeopleGger RogersTlThe Gay DivorceeLanguagEnglish. The Gay Divorcee (1934)46 of 64Gger Rogers The Gay Divorcee (1934)PeopleGger RogersTlThe Gay Divorcee. ” Rogers first performed wh Astaire Flyg Down to R (1933), and their dance scen—featurg an effortlsns and energy that beme their tramarks—proved so popular that they ntued the partnership ne other films, notably The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), and The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), their last llaboratn.

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“The Gay Divorcee” (1934)– Mil #121. -Based on the 1932 Broadway show “The Gay Divorce, ” which starred Fred Astaire and Claire Luce.

“The Gay Divorcee” is probably my favore Fred Astaire and Gger Rogers. In regards to film history, “The Gay Divorcee” is a landmark, as was the first film to w the Amy Award for Bt Song, which went to “The Contental. And while “Gay Divorcee” is siar to this formula, still feels different and is entertag.

“The Gay Divorcee” is also fun bee along wh Astaire and Rogers, we have some other dividuals who hop and sg a song. 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.