Watch The Gay Divorcee (1934) Free Online

Release Date: 1934

Cast: Eric Blore, Alice Brady, William Austin, Betty Grable, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Edward Everett Horton, Lillian Miles, Erik Rhodes

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Screwball comedy, Black-and-white, Musical comedy, Comedy, Musical, Pre-Code, Romance Film, Comedy of Errors

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the second film in which Rogers and Astaire were paired after Flying Down to Rio (1933), and the first in which they were the stars. It also features Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes, and was based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners,, which was adaptated into a musical by Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. The film's screenplay was written by George Marion Jr.,... MORE

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the second film in which Rogers and Astaire were paired after Flying Down to Rio (1933), and the first in which they were the stars. It also features Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes, and was based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners,, which was adaptated into a musical by Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. The film's screenplay was written by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman. Robert Benchley, H. W. Hanemann and Stanley Rauh made uncredited contributions to the dialogue. The stage version included many songs by Cole Porter, most of which were left out of the film, "Night and Day" being a notable exception. Although the film's screenplay changed most of the songs, it kept the original plot of the stage version. The film features three members of the play's original cast repeating their stage roles - Astaire, Rhodes, and Eric Blore. The Hays Office insisted on the name change, from "Gay Divorce" to "The Gay Divorcee", believing that while a LESS