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
Academy Award for Best Original Song "Once". However, the AMPAS music committee determined that, in the course of the film's protracted production, the composers had "played the song in some venues that were deemed inconsequential enough to not change the song's eligibility". The same issue arose two years earlier with "In the Deep" from "Crash", which appeared on Bird York's 2003 album "The Velvet Hour" after being written for "Crash", but before the film was released. The current Academy rule says an eligible song "must be recorded for use in the motion picture prior to any other usage", so recordings released prior to the film will