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DVD : The Gay DivorceeIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes directed by: Mark Sandrich  List Price: $19.98 Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience 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 Studio: Turner Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: October 12, 1934 Sales Rank: 12718 MPN: TRNDT7569D Related Items: Editorial Review: 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 Brady 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 Average Rating:
 Rating: - Astaire and Rogers at their best."The Gay Divorcee" is one of the great musicals of all time. It is also one of my favorite films, usually in my personal top five. Guy (Fred Astaire) is a professional dancer touring Europe. Mimi (Ginger Rogers) is a married woman seeking a divorce from her husband. Her dizzy Aunt Hortense (Alice Brady) hires Guy's friend Egbert as Mimi's attorney. After a misunderstanding at a customs hall in England, Mimi is resistant to Guy's attempts to woo her. At the hotel where they are both ... Read More 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 lessonsThis 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: - A celebration!This wonderful movie is a celebration of American song and dance, though there isn't much mystery over why the guy got a divorce. 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 Browse for similar items by category:
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