The Gay Divorcee
by Mark Sandrich
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Actor: Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Fred Astaire, Ginger RogersDirector: Mark Sandrich
Brand: TURNER HM ENTERTAINM
Writer: Dorothy Yost
Writer: Dwight Taylor
Writer: Edward Kaufman
Writer: George Marion Jr.
Writer: J. Hartley Manners
Writer: Kenneth S. Webb
Writer: Robert Benchley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Italian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Movie Reviews of The Gay Divorcee
Movie Review: Dancing for joy!
Summary: 5 Stars
Such an upbeat movie! The dancing was superb and Astaire and Rogers beamed with high energy and skill while entertaining. They truly do "make love" in their dancing as Fred Astaire puts it!
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Summary of The Gay Divorcee
In one of their best loved, most charming song-and-dance comedies, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers demonstrate just how they became best known as America's greatest dance team. Includes the Academy Award(R) winning hit "The Continental." Year: 1934 Director: Mark Sandrich Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice BradyThe year before, in 1933, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers had grabbed America's attention in Flying Down to Rio, even though they were the second bananas in that film. The duo had a certain chemistry--Fred with his lighter-than-air elegance, Ginger with her moxie--and studio heads gambled that they could carry a starring vehicle of their own. Nobody guessed there would be another eight movies together after The Gay Divorcee, which turned into a huge success for RKO Pictures. The plot is the usual silliness, with Ginger a divorce-minded gal in England, Fred a dancer whose sincere interest in her is mistaken for something else. But plots never mattered much in these affairs, and this one achieves a kind of free-floating bliss. Astaire had starred in the stage version of the story, titled The Gay Divorce. The censors forced the extra e to be added to the title because surely no divorce could be portrayed as a happy one (this frothy movie's evidence notwithstanding). Only one song was carried over from the stage show, Cole Porter's smash hit "Night and Day," which forms the basis for a sublime pas de deux between Fred and Ginger. A tune, "The Continental," written for this film won the first Oscar ever awarded in the best-song category. --Robert Horton
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