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Hartley Manners' play 'The Gay Divorce'. The Hays Office sisted on shovg an 'e' on the end, for how uld a divorce be so triflg as to be gay? Keepg jt one song om Cole Porter's origal sre, the timels 'Night and Day', and addg only four others, The Gay Divorcée is more a edy wh songs than is a mil edy.

Rick_7Jan 29, 2004Contribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentBy what name was The Gay Divorcee (1934) officially released India English? (mil play "Gay Divorce") (uncreded). The Gay DivorceeEdSummariA woman thks a flirtg man is the -rponnt her lawyer has hired to expede her Glossop wants a divorce, so her Aunt Hortense hir a profsnal to play the -rponnt apparent fily.

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Be the first to moreContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentBy what name was The Gay Divorcee (1934) officially released India English? 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.

Contribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentBy what name was The Gay Divorcee (1934) officially released India English? Release DateUned StatOctober 11, 1934(Boston, Massachetts, premiere)Uned StatOctober 12, 1934Uned KgdomDecember 3, 1934(London)FranceDecember 28, 1934Turkey1935Also Known As (AKA)(origal tle)The Gay DivorceeArgentaLa alegre divorciadaAtraliaThe Gay DivorceeAtriaLtige ScheidungBelgiumDe vroolijke gcheine(Flemish)BelgiumLa divorcée joyse(French)Contribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentBy what name was The Gay Divorcee (1934) officially released India English?

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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.

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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.