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5 days ago · The Gay Divorcee marks Fred Astaire's first leading role alongside Ginger Rogers in this charming 1934 adaptation of Cole Porter’s stage hit “Gay Divorce.” Directed by Mark Sandrich, the plot follows an American woman seeking to divorce her husband by staging an affair with a suave dancer.
2 days ago · Ginger Rogers had been invited by the Birthday Ball Committee to be the signature Hollywood celebrity at the ball in Washington. Just twenty-five years old but a veteran of years in vaudeville and more than thirty feature films, she had leaped into super-stardom two years before as dance man Fred Astaire’s leading lady in the film The Gay Divorcee .
3 days ago · Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers’s second collaboration – and first as top-billed stars – set the template for the rest of them. While The Gay Divorcee keeps the plot of the Cole Porter musical Gay Divorce intact, the film eschews nearly all of the songs, keeping only the hit “Night and Day,” which would become the pair’s signature number.
3 days ago · A quiz about personal facts in the life of Ginger Rogers. Enjoy! A multiple-choice quiz by Sther . Estimated time: 5 mins. Last 3 plays: Guest 124 ( 4/10 ), rooby2s ( 2/10 ), Guest 99 ( 5/10 ).
3 days ago · After meeting on the set of Don't Bet on Love in 1933, Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres married a year later in November 1934. The couple was married for six years, but divorced in 1940. Hulton...
5 days ago · On the other hand, "Yolanda", "Royal Wedding" and "Barkleys" all have strong individual selling points. For "Yolanda" it's the involvement of Vincente Minnelli, for "Royal Wedding", Astaire's...
3 days ago · Republic of Gilead? July 5, 2024 by recluse2013. 0. I wrote some time back about how I thought the premise of the 70’s novel The Boys From Brazil; clowning Hitler in an attempt to establish a Forth Reich was an unnecessarily difficult stretch. Rather than clone Hitler and attempt to have him turn out like the Führer (from 1930’s to who ...
