The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. 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 adapted into a musical by Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. The films 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.
Mimi Glossop Ginger Rogers arrives in England to seek a divorce from her geologist husband Cyril, whom she hasnt seen for several years. Under the guidance of her domineering and muchmarried aunt Hortense Alice Brady, she consults incompetent and bumbling lawyer Egbert Fitzgerald Edward Everett Horton, once a fianc of her aunt. He arranges for her to spend a night at a seaside hotel and to be caught in an adulterous relationship, for which purpose he hires a professional corespondent, Rodolfo Tonetti Erik Rhodes. But Egbert forgets to arrange for private detectives to catch the couple.By coincidence, Guy Holden Fred Astaire an American dancer and friend of Egberts, who briefly met Mimi on her arrival in England, and who is now besotted with her, also arrives at the hotel, only to be mistaken by Mimi for the corespondent she has been waiting for. While they are in Mimis bedroom, Tonetti arrives, revealing the truth, and holds them prisoner to suit the plan. They contrive to escape and dance the night away. ........
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