The Gay Divorcee

★★★★ MUSICAL Fred Astaire’s stage hit The Gay Divorce became The

Gay Divorcee on British screens because the censor ruled that divorce was no laughing matter. The story is just as fragile as ever but Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance up a storm, including a delightfully lengthy and complex sequence to the Oscarwinning The Continental, although the only song surviving from the original Cole Porter score was the immortal Night and Day.

Dir: Mark Sandrich 1934, U, 105min