“The
Gay Divorcee” is a Musical Romantic Comedy, Written by George Marion Jr,
Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman from the book by Dwight Taylor, musical
adaptation Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein and Directed by Mark
Sandrich.
The
story concerns American dancer Guy Holden (Fred Astaire) and Mimi Glossop (Ginger
Rogers), there’s clearly an attraction between them but Mimi keeps running off.
Then
she visits a lawyer in London, Egbert 'Pinky' Fitzgerald (Edward Everett
Horton) and tells him she wants a divorce from her absentee husband.
Meanwhile
Mimi’s Aunt Hortense (Alice Brady) hires a professional Rodolfo Tonetti (Erik
Rhodes) to play the correspondent in an apparent infidelity.
But
what neither of them knows in that Guy and Pinky are friends so they travel
down to Brightbourne together where the dancer meets Mimi again but she thinks
that he is the correspondent.
When
the dust settles and the confusion has been cleared up Mimi’s husband Cyril
(William Austin) turns up but he refuses to grant a divorce, luckily the waiter
(Eric Blore) comes to the rescue.
The
movie is a feast of song and dance and won the first Oscar for Best Song: “The
Continental”, a twenty-two-minute production number.
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