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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0053939756920
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 13804
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: October 12, 1934
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In one of their best loved most charming song-and-dance comedies Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers demonstrate just how they became best known as America's greatest dance team. Includes the Academy Award(R) winning hit 'The Continental.' Year: 1934 Director: Mark Sandrich Starring: Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Alice BradyRunning Time: 105 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS UPC: 053939756920 Manufacturer No: T7569
Amazon.com essential video:
The year before, in 1933, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers had grabbed America's attention in Flying Down to Rio, even though they were the second bananas in that film. The duo had a certain chemistry--Fred with his lighter-than-air elegance, Ginger with her moxie--and studio heads gambled that they could carry a starring vehicle of their own. Nobody guessed there would be another eight movies together after The Gay Divorcee, which turned into a huge success for RKO Pictures. The plot is the usual silliness, with Ginger a divorce-minded gal in England, Fred a dancer whose sincere interest in her is mistaken for something else. But plots never mattered much in these affairs, and this one achieves a kind of free-floating bliss. Astaire had starred in the stage version of the story, titled The Gay Divorce. The censors forced the extra e to be added to the title because surely no divorce could be portrayed as a happy one (this frothy movie's evidence notwithstanding). Only one song was carried over from the stage show, Cole Porter's smash hit 'Night and Day,' which forms the basis for a sublime pas de deux between Fred and Ginger. A tune, 'The Continental,' written for this film won the first Oscar ever awarded in the best-song category. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Excellent musical comedy - perfectly balanced
"The Gay Divorcee" is the second film in the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers canon and the first to star them together as the leads. Based on Astaire's Broadway success, the film is a superbly mounted showcase and the precursor of what was to come. Here are some of the highlights:
- Cole Porter's "Night and Day" was the only song retained from the stage musical. It is justly famous for Astaire's seduction of Rogers to dance, worth seeing also for the look on her face at the end. Also, Astaire's ... Read More
Rating:  - Makes you want to take dance lessons
This wasn't my favorite Astaire/Rogers movie, but it is entertaining and the choreography is never a disappointment. I enjoyed seeing the old character actors on screen once again. The storyline is typical of early Hollywood but seeing Fred and Ginger dance makes it worth a couple hours of your time.
Rating: - The Film That Started It All, More or Less
"The Gay Divorcee," (1934) was the first RKO studio pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as stars, after they unexpectedly stole the previous year's "Flying Down to Rio." It received five Academy Award nominations: one for Best Picture, and won one, the first ever awarded in that category, for best original song,"The Continental." It set the look and sound of the Astaire-Rogers pictures for this studio, and brought together most of the onscreen, and offscreen, talent that would make them. And it was ... Read More
Rating: - fine early vehicle for Fred and Ginger
The Gay Divorcee has all the qualities of an American 1930s musical: dancing, singing and acting all by very good actors in a glamorous world free of the woes and sorrows of the Great Depression. The plot moves along at a fair pace even though it's razor thin; and the dancing by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers stuns me with its timing and beauty.
Guy Holden (Fred Astaire), an American professional dancer, happens by chance to meet Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers) when they bump into each other on a ... Read More
Rating: - They Waltz Down the Stairs - Sublime!
In spite of the fact that the title seems dated, this is a timeless classic of the dance musical genre. Fresh off their incredible success in FYING DOWN TO RIO, in which they stole the show from the top billed Gene Raymond and Dolores Del Rio (the most gorgeous woman ever to grace the silver screen), Fred and Ginger dance their way into our hearts as well as into film history in this effervescent creation.
All of it works beautifully, from the incredible sets and costumes to the snappy ... Read More
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