The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Directed by

Mark Sandrich

Genre

screwball comedy film, musical film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 147 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman travels to a seaside resort to get a divorce from her husband. She meets a charming dancer who helps her scheme to end the marriage, and they fall in love.

lightheartedcharmingenergeticfunwhimsicalupbeatplayfulromantic

What happens

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It also features Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, and Eric Blore. The screenplay was written by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, and Edward Kaufman. It is based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce, written by Dwight Taylor, with Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein adapting an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners. The stage version included many songs by Cole Porter that were left out of the film, except for "Night and Day". Although most of the songs were replaced, the screenplay kept the original plot of the stage version. Three members of the play's original cast repeated their stage roles: Astaire, Rhodes and Blore. The Gay Divorcee was the second (after Flying Down to Rio) of ten pairings of Astaire and Rogers on film and their first one as a duo in leading roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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