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The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee

  • Status: Released
  • 12-10-1934
  • Runtime: 107 min
  • Score: 6.9
  • Vote count: 135

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.

Fred Astaire

Guy Holden

Ginger Rogers

Mimi Glossop

Alice Brady

Hortense

Edward Everett Horton

Egbert Fitzgerald

Erik Rhodes

Rodolfo Tonetti

Eric Blore

Waiter

William Austin

Cyril Glossop

Charles Coleman

Valet

Lillian Miles

Guest

Betty Grable

Guest

E. E. Clive

Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited)

Paul Porcasi

French Headwaiter (uncredited)

Norman Ainsley

(uncredited)

Jimmy Aubrey

(uncredited)

Finis Barton

(uncredited)

Eleanor Bayley

Dancer (uncredited)

De Don Blunier

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Jack Chefe

Night Club Patron (uncredited)

Cy Clegg

Porter (uncredited)

Larry Steers

Night Club Patron (uncredited)

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"Guy Holden" (Fred Astaire) is already a celebrated American star of the stage, when he meets the delightfully named "Mimi Glossop" (Ginger Rogers) on a cross-channel packet boat as he travels from Paris to London. He accidentally tears her dress (no, not in mad passion...) so lends her his overcoat which which he hopes will be returned with some details of how he can continue to see her... Meantime, she is trying to organise a complicated divorce - not so very easy in the 1930s - and we embark on a fairly fast-paced story of loves, lusts and just plain old miscommunication that leads her, "Holden" and a really good support cast that includes Alice Brady, Erik Rhodes and a short cameo from the inimitable Betty Grable on a jolly, jaunty - if entirely insubstantial romantic drama. As ever with these Astaire/Rogers presentations, the actual plot is little better than a skeleton for the wonderful dance routines and here - some Cole Porter "Night and Day" and Con Conrad "The Continental" to help keep the toes tapping.