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The Gay Divorcee(Movie, 1934)

1h 47min | Genres: Comedy, Romance / Love
The Gay DivorceeRating: 3.5/5 (with 4949 votes)
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 is 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 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... ()
Movie poster of The Gay Divorcee

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Awards & Nominations for The Gay Divorcee

Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Academy Award for Best Sound

About The Gay Divorcee

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Brighton
Based on: "Gay Divorce" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR), Italian (IT)
Translated into 17 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/12/1934
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"La alegre divorciada"
"Lustige Scheidung"
"A Alegre Divorciada"
"Scheidung auf amerikanisch"
"Continental"
"L'alegre divorciada"
"Continental - hupainen avioero"
"En glad skilsmässa"
"Hupainen avioero"
"La joyeuse divorcée"
"The Gay Divorce"
"I efthymi zontohira"
"Continental"
"The Gay Divorce"
"Cerco il mio amore"
"Continental"
"Konchinentaru"
"La alegre divorciada"
"Wesola rozwódka"
"A Alegre Divorciada"
"Continental"
"Весёлый развод"
"Kontinental"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:28095, Added: 02/28/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024