{"id":355,"date":"2007-08-21T11:42:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/355"},"modified":"2011-09-24T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T00:54:32","slug":"the-gay-divorcee-1934-mark-sandrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/355","title":{"rendered":"The Gay Divorcee (1934, Mark Sandrich)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A light and funny musical about trying to ruin a woman’s reputation, sort of the opposite of the end scene of Buster Keaton’s College<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Supposed to be “the first film that featured Astaire and Rogers in equal billing”. I kinda recognized Rogers from Monkey Business<\/a><\/em>, and Astaire from those cartoon caricatures where he has a giant head and big hands. Hmm, now I’ve seen his first (Flying Down to Rio<\/em>) and second movies, and none of the other 40+ he made through the years. Who else?<\/p>\n

Alice Bracy as the almost-annoying Aunt Hortense was also in My Man Godfrey<\/a><\/em> and Young Mr. Lincoln<\/a><\/em> before dying of cancer in ’39.
\nEdward Evertt Horton, Fred’s posh-looking straight-man sidekick (the lawyer who arranges the divorce at a resort), appeared in other Astaire movies incl. Top Hat<\/em> and Holiday<\/a><\/em>
\nErik Rhodes is Mr. Tonetti, the amorous fake-beau who pretends to cheat while his wife cheats on him for real, was in the Broadway version of this, and later appeared in Top Hat<\/em>.
\nEric Blore, the waiter, was also in Top Hat<\/em>, jeez.
\nBetty Grable, the most famous pin-up girl of WWII and star of The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend<\/a><\/em>, had a featured dance, but I didn’t recognize her.<\/p>\n

Won best song at the Oscars for “The Continental” but lost out best picture to It Happened One Night<\/em> and best art direction to The Merry Widow<\/em> (also with edward e. horton). I’m not sure it should have been in strong contention for best art direction in the first place… not exactly a huge production with lights and mirrors, sort of small-scale simple dancing and singing. We liked it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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