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A Gay Divorcee occurs as 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was according to a musical play The Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor, Kenneth S. Webb, Samuel Hoffenstein, with screenplay by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman, from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners. A Hays Office insisted on the name vary, believing that when the grass widow can become gay, it would be uncomely to allow the divorcement to pop up and so. A motion-picture show was directed by Mark Sandrich.

Erik Rhodes, Edward Everett Horton and Eric Blore

A flick occurs as romanticistic musical with a slenderize plot. It involved a popular dance team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and besides starred Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes. A song "The Continental" by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson won the Academy Award for Best Song, and is a music to the twenty-microscopic dance sequence towards the prevent of the film.

A stage version involved numerous songs by Cole Porter, most of which were excised from either a film, "Night and Day" being a notable exception.

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Bright Lights Film Journal: The Gay Divorcee
Review: "The Gay Divorcee virtually invented the chaste, frothy, big-screen musical that remains a symbol of the thirties even today."

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