The Gay Divorcee pride in his craftsmanship and objects to outside interference. All of them plus the Continental, help to make the new Music Hall show the source of a good deal of innocent merriment.” The film was nominated for the following Academy Awards, winning in the category Music (Song): 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
Mark Sandrich Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. In 1934, Sandrich was given the job of directing the first proper Astaire-Rogers musical, "The Gay Divorcee", which proved a tremendous success. The following year, he directed "Top Hat" (1935), another Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical. He continued working with the team on "Follow the Fleet" (1936). After directing Katharine Hepburn in "A Woman Rebels" (1936) he returned to Astaire and Rogers for "Shall We Dance" (1937), and "Carefree" (1938). In 1939, Sandrich left RKO for Paramount, which offered him a chance to be not only director, but a producer as well. Sandrich's first