The Gay Divorcee (1934) |
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The Gay Divorcee Cast |
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Fred Astaire
(as Guy Holden)
with Ginger Rogers
(as Mimi Glossop)
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AwardsBest Sound, Recording Academy Awards [1935] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Picture Academy Awards [1935] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Score Academy Awards [1935] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Art Direction Academy Awards [1935] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Original Song Academy Awards [1935] (Won/Nominated: Won) Plot SummaryMimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and she thinks he is the correspondent. The plot is ... TaglineMusical Triumph Of Two Continents Introducing the new dance sensation "The Continental" The King and Queen of `Carioca` DiscographySinglesThe Continental (You Kiss While You`re Dancing)" The Continential Night and Day Let`s K-nock K-neez A Needle in a Haystack Don`t Let It Bother You |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Guy Holden: You think I`m going to leave you alone with a strange Italian? He might be a tenor!
Aunt Hortense: Be feminine and sweet. If you can blend the two.
Guy Holden: Chance is the fool`s name for fate. Tonetti: [unable to remember his passphrase "Chance is a fool`s name for fate," Tonettie repeatedly muffs it] Chance is the foolish name for fate. / Give me a name for chance and I am a fool. / Fate is a foolish thing to take chances with. / I am a fate to take foolish chances with. / Chances are that fate is foolish. / Fate is the foolish thing. Take a chance. Egbert Fitzgerald: And now, Tonetti, remember: I want delicacy, tact, assurance, finesse.
Tonetti: I`ve brought everything. Tonetti: Rodolfo Tonetti at your service.
Egbert Fitzgerald: Yes... well, I am Mr. Fitzgerald.
Tonetti: Mr. Fitzgerald?
[shaking hands]
Tonetti: Oh, I`m delightful!
Egbert Fitzgerald: Oh, I shouldn`t doubt it, old man, I shouldn`t doubt it. But, don`t you think that a corespondent ought to come to work quieter? Let`s have more repose and less Rigoletto.
Tonetti: Ha, I am ready for action, and I will do a first-class job.
Egbert Fitzgerald: Well, don`t be too determined about it. Remember, the lady in question is very sensitive, and you must treat her accordingly.
Tonetti: Bene, whichever way the wind she is blowing, that is the way I sail. Egbert Fitzgerald: Your life, Mr. Tonetti, must be full of excitement.
Tonetti: Full of excitement, and full of danger.
Egbert Fitzgerald: Oh, yes, of course... from the husbands.
Tonetti: No, from the ladies.
Egbert Fitzgerald: Oh, how interesting!
Tonetti: But, Tonetti, he know what to do. Yes, sometimes, the lady and I have the conversation... somtimes, I play the concertina... sometimes, I play the solitaire... but, mostly, I practice my singing. At home, my wife, he do not like me to sing.
Egbert Fitzgerald: Unquestionably a woman of great perspicacity.
Tonetti: Oh, si, si, signor, you bet! The Waiter: Whumsical is more Whimsical than Whamsical. Egbert Fitzgerald: Guy, you`re not pining for that girl!
Guy Holden: Pining? Men don`t pine. Girls pine. Men just... suffer. Aunt Hortense: You know, you`re beginning to fascinate me, and I resent that in any man. Guy Holden: Can I offer you anything? Frosted chocolate? Cointreau? Benedictine? Marriage?
Mimi Glossop: What was that last one?
Guy Holden: Benedictine?
Mimi Glossop: No, the one after that.
Guy Holden: Oh, marriage?
Mimi Glossop: Do you always propose marriage as casually as that?
Guy Holden: There is nothing casual about it. In fact, I`ve given it long and sincere thought. Mimi Glossop: I hope you like what I ordered. I`ve never had breakfast with two men before.
Guy Holden: I`ve tried it. It`s no fun. Waiter: That`s what they call an igneous intrusion.
Guy Holden: You`re somewhat of an igneous intrusion yourself. Guy Holden: [singing and skipping in a circle] The husband is coming! Hooray! Hooray! Mimi Glossop: Please don`t ask me to stay.
Guy Holden: All right, I won`t. Don`t go! Mimi: I don`t care what you did as a boy.
Guy: Well, I did nothing as a girl, so there goes my childhood. Guy Holden: I was chasing you, you shouldn`t run away like that.
Mimi Glossop: Why not?
Guy Holden: It`s bad for my health.Trivia Erik Rhodes, who plays Tonetti, repeats his stage role from the Broadway musical "Gay Divorce", on which this is based. The first film to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Although "Night and Day" is the only song retained from the show "Gay Divorce" (on which the movie is based), the plotline remained basically the same on stage and film. This is the only film in which Fred Astaire plays a role that he originally played on Broadway. The original musical on which this movie was based was called "The Gay Divorce", but because of objections from the censor, the title of the film was changed to "The Gay Divorcee" (one `e` added). The bugle call at the beginning of the "Don`t Let It Bother You" dance was developed from clowning during rehearsals, and became an in-joke in future Astaire-Rogers films. Helen Broderick was asked to play the role of Hortense but was unavailable. Advertisements for the film touted Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as "The King and Queen of the Carioca" in reference to their previous film, Flying Down to Rio (1933). | ||
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