The Gay Divorcee (1934)
October 12, 1934Release Date
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
October 12, 1934Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Fred Astaire
Guy Holden
Ginger Rogers
Mimi Glossop
Alice Brady
Hortense
Edward Everett Horton
Egbert Fitzgerald
Erik Rhodes
Rodolfo Tonetti
Eric Blore
Waiter
William Austin
Cyril Glossop
Charles Coleman
Valet
Lillian Miles
Guest
Betty Grable
Guest
E. E. Clive
Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited)
Paul Porcasi
French Headwaiter (uncredited)
Norman Ainsley
(uncredited)
Kenneth S. Webb
Writer
Jimmy Aubrey
(uncredited)
Samuel Hoffenstein
Writer
Finis Barton
(uncredited)
Eleanor Bayley
Dancer (uncredited)
De Don Blunier
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Cy Clegg
Porter (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Dorothy Yost
Screenplay
Edward Kaufman
Screenplay
Mark Sandrich
Director
George Marion Jr.
Screenplay
Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction
Pandro S. Berman
Producer
Walter Plunkett
Costume Design
Carroll Clark
Art Direction
William Hamilton
Editor
David Abel
Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 12, 1934
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 47m
Content RatingNR
Budget$520,000
Box Office$1,800,000
Filming LocationsSanta Monica, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
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. The screenplay was written by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, and Edward Kaufman. It was based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce, written by Dwight Taylor with Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein adapting an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners.The stage version included many songs by Cole Porter which were left out of the film, except for "Night and Day". Though 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 Eric Blore.The Hays Office insisted that RKO change the name from "Gay Divorce" to "The Gay Divorcee", on the grounds that while a divorcée could be gay or lighthearted, it would be unseemly to allow a divorce to appear so. According to Astaire, the change was made proactively by RKO. The director, Mark Sandrich, told him that The Gay Divorcee was selected as the new name because the studio "thought it was a more attractive-sounding title, centered around a girl." RKO even offered fifty dollars to any employee who could come up with a better title. In the United Kingdom, the film was released with the title The Gay Divorce.
This film was the second (after Flying Down to Rio, 1933) of ten pairings of Astaire and Rogers on film.