The Gay Divorcee
Samuel Hoffenstein
['Fred Frith', 'Amon Tobin', 'Jimmy Webb', 'Michael Nyman', 'Harold Arlen', 'Eric Idle', 'Syd Barrett', 'Vivaldi', 'Frank Loesser', 'Dario Argento', 'Michel Legrand', 'Phil Collins', 'Prokofiev', 'Brian Tyler', 'Juelz Santana', 'Jackie Gleason', 'Pritam', 'Bobby Darin', 'Elmer Bernstein', 'Ian', 'Bhanumathi Ramakrishna', 'Jimmy Cliff', 'Justin Moore', 'Arnold Schoenberg', 'Utada Hikaru', 'Toby Gad', 'Trent Reznor', 'Giulio Caccini', 'Jerry Fielding', 'Todd Rundgren', 'John Kander', 'Shostakovich', 'Robert Rodriguez', 'Vincenzo Bellini', 'Johannes Brahms', 'Harry Ruby', 'Alejandro Jodorowsky', 'Arturo Toscanini', 'R D Burman', 'Alfano', 'Ron Grainer', 'Stephen Flaherty', 'Rabindranath Tagore', 'LMFAO', 'Paul Simon', 'Stravinsky', 'Gioacchino Rossini', 'Clint Eastwood', 'Henry Purcell', 'George Fenton', 'Brian', 'John Powell', 'Scott Bradley', 'Handel', 'Meredith Willson', 'Lady Gaga', 'Nobuo Uematsu', 'Leo Kottke', 'Bruce Springsteen', 'Carly Simon', 'Lou Reed', 'Rousseau', 'Ian Gillan', 'Goutam Ghose', 'Duke Mitchell', 'Yuvan Shankar Raja', 'MC Ren', 'Johann Strauss II', 'Sibelius', 'Ron Goodwin', 'Ottorino Respighi', 'David Newman', 'Lee Hazlewood', 'Fred Ebb', 'Ennio Morricone', 'Gioachino Rossini', 'Burman', 'Shinji Aoyama', 'Bernstein', 'Lalo Schifrin', 'Timbaland', 'Ozzy Osbourne', 'Roy Budd', 'Jerry Herman', 'Stevie Nicks', 'Marc Shaiman', 'Anirudh Ravichander', 'Koti', 'John Lennon', 'Brandy', 'Pergolesi', 'Jay Chou', 'Irving Berlin', 'Green Day', 'James Newton Howard', 'Coline Serreau', 'Loudon Wainwright III', 'Pietro Mascagni', 'Johnny Green']
The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It also features Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes, and was based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners, which was adapted into a musical by Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. The film's screenplay was written by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman. Robert Benchley, H. W. Hanemann and Stanley Rauh made uncredited contributions to the dialogue. The stage version included many songs by Cole Porter, most of which were left out of the film, "Night and Day" being the only exception. Although the film's screenplay changed most of the songs, it kept the original plot of the stage version. The film features three members of the play's original cast repeating their stage roles - Astaire, Rhodes, and Eric Blore. The Hays Office insisted on the name change, from "Gay Divorce" to "The Gay Divorcee", believing that while a divorcee could be gay or lighthearted, it would be unseemly to allow a divorce to appear so. In the United Kingdom, the film was released with the original name of the play, Gay Divorce. The Gay Divorcee was a box office hit and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1934. This film was the second of ten pairings of Rogers and Astaire on film.