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Film still from THE GAY DIVORCEE. A dancing scene with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
THE GAY DIVORCEE

Fri 18.03.
20:00

  • Director

    Mark Sandrich

  • USA / 1934
    107 min. / 35 mm / Original version

  • with

    With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton

  • Original language

    English

  • Preserved by the Library of Congress

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

"Porter!" - It all starts in the disembarkation area of a transatlantic liner: Mimi (Ginger Rogers) just wants to pick up her absentminded Aunt Hortense (Alice Brady), but instead of the summoned help, she meets dancer Guy Holden (Fred Astaire), who promptly falls in love with her while trying to get her out of an awkward situation. A fast-paced divorce comedy - pre-Hays Code meets screwball comedy - progresses, embedded in a cascade of fantastic song and dance numbers: quirky ("Let's -K-nock K-nees": Edward Everett Horton as a cranky lawyer together with Betty Grable), epic ("The Continental" - 17 minutes), effortless (and unforgettable: "Night and Day" by Cole Porter). (mg)

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