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The Gay Divorcee is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Mark Sandrich released in USA on 12 october 1934 with Fred Astaire

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

The Gay Divorcee
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Released in USA 12 october 1934
Length 1h47
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Musical,    Romance
Rating73% 3.695473.695473.695473.695473.69547

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It also features Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes, and was based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners, which was adapted into a musical by Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. The film's screenplay was written by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman. Robert Benchley, H. W. Hanemann and Stanley Rauh made uncredited contributions to the dialogue.

The stage version included many songs by Cole Porter, most of which were left out of the film, "Night and Day" being a notable exception. Although the film's screenplay changed most of the songs, it kept the original plot of the stage version. The film features three members of the play's original cast repeating their stage roles - Astaire, Rhodes, and Eric Blore. The Hays Office insisted on the name change, from "Gay Divorce" to "The Gay Divorcee", believing that while a divorcee could be gay or lighthearted, it would be unseemly to allow a divorce to appear so. In the United Kingdom, the film was released with the original name of the play, Gay Divorce.

The Gay Divorcee was a box office hit and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1934.

Synopsis

Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers) arrives in England to seek a divorce from her geologist husband Cyril, whom she hasn't seen for several years. Under the guidance of her domineering and much-married aunt Hortense (Alice Brady), she consults incompetent and bumbling lawyer Egbert Fitzgerald (Edward Everett Horton), once a fiancé of her aunt. He arranges for her to spend a night at a seaside hotel and to be caught in an adulterous relationship, for which purpose he hires a professional co-respondent, Rodolfo Tonetti (Erik Rhodes). But Egbert forgets to arrange for private detectives to "catch" the couple.

Actors

Fred Astaire

(Guy Holden)Ginger Rogers

(Mimi Glossop)Alice Brady

(Hortense)Edward Everett Horton

(Egbert Fitzgerald)Betty Grable

(Guest)
And :
Eric Blore
Erik Rhodes
Charles Coleman
William Austin
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