The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was based on the musical play The Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor, Kenneth S. Webb, Samuel Hoffenstein, with screenplay by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman, from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners. The Hays Office insisted on the name change, believing that whilst a divorcee could be gay, it would be unseemly to allow a divorce to appear so. The movie was directed by Mark Sandrich.

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• Karin Longworth's analysis of the Night and Day routine

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