Academy Award Performance: And the Envelope, Please 34 seconds of the song "Thanks for the Memory" then fades into the next song ("The Continental," the oldest movie theme on this album). "Thanks for the Memory" is also the last track on the album and continues where it left off but fades immediately after the next verse. There were two singles to come from this album: "We May Never Love Like This Again" (from "The Towering Inferno", which was a minor hit for McGovern one year before) and "The Continental" (from the 1934 film "The Gay Divorcee", which was the very first song to ever win an Oscar).
The Gay Divorcee Dwight Taylor’s Broadway hit "Gay Divorce" with another Astaire and Rogers matchup in mind. According to Fred Astaire’s autobiography, director Mark Sandrich claimed that RKO altered the title to insinuate that the film concerned the amorous adventures of a recently divorced woman (“divorcée”). Dance routines from the film, specifically "Night and Day" and the scene where Astaire dances on the table, were taken from Astaire’s performances in the original play, "The Gay Divorce". The "Don't Let It Bother You" dance came from foolhardy antics during rehearsals and became an in-joke in future Astaire-Rogers films. Exteriors set in what was supposed