The Gay Divorcee
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The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was based on the 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. The movie was directed by Mark Sandrich.
The movie is a romantic musical with a slim plot. It included the popular dance team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and also starred Alice Brady and Edward Everett Horton. The song "The Continental" by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson won the Academy Award for Best Song, and is the music to the twenty-minute dance sequence towards the end of the film.
The stage version included many songs by Cole Porter, most of which were excised from the film, "Night and Day" being a notable exception.