Watch The Gay Divorcee (2012) Free Online

Release Date: 2012

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

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Pre-Code, Musical, Screwball Comedy, Comedy, Musical Comedy, Comedy Of Errors, Black-And-White, Romantic Comedy

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American film based on the musical play 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. The Hays Office insisted on the name change, believing that while a divorcee could be gay or lighthearted, it would be unseemly to allow a divorce to appear so. The movie was directed by Mark Sandrich. The film is a screwball musical comedy with a slim plot. This was the second of the Rogers and Astaire musicals; Flying Down to Rio... MORE

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American film based on the musical play 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. The Hays Office insisted on the name change, believing that while a divorcee could be gay or lighthearted, it would be unseemly to allow a divorce to appear so. The movie was directed by Mark Sandrich. The film is a screwball musical comedy with a slim plot. This was the second of the Rogers and Astaire musicals; Flying Down to Rio (1933) was the first. It included the popular dance team of Fred Astaire and a 23-year-old Ginger Rogers, and also starred Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes. It is the first of the series to feature Astaire and Rogers as the main attraction. The stage version included many songs by Cole Porter, most of which were excised from the film, "Night and Day" being a notable exception. Oddly enough, although it changed most of the songs, it kept the original plot of the stage version. The film featured three members of the original cast of The Gay Divorce repeating their stage LESS