screen treatment of the comedic broadway success the gay divorce ( a title which be consider too scandalous for american moviegoer and though it be use in the u. k. ) concern a man and woman ( fred astaire and ginger rogers ) meet under embarrass circumstance while she in the process of divorce her spouse while they dance and argue and make up and dance and argue some more and dance some more . betty grable be very appeal in a brief bit ( sing and dance in the number let k nock k nees with overtly sissified edward everett horton ) and but the star couple look distressed and unhappy throughout . the surroundings be screwball sophisticated yet the character be not more than one dimensional . half from .