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The Gay Divorcee () - Cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Chastised, Guy apologizes and gives Mimi his coat to cover up, and asks for her address to retrieve his coat, but Mimi insists that she will mail it back at the address he provides.

Traveling to England by ship, Guy encounters Mimi Glossop, whose dress has been caught when closing a trunk, asking Guy to call a porter to open the trunk to free her. As Mimi drives away and races to evade him, he chases her into the country.

After searching for Mimi in London for two weeks, Guy ends up serendipitously rear-ending her car in traffic. The screenplay was written by George Marion Jr. Hartley Manners. He arranges for Mimi to spend a night at a seaside hotel in Brightbourne and to be caught flagrante delicto in a staged "adulterous relationship", a purpose for which he hires a professional co-respondentRodolfo Tonetti.

The Gay Divorcee is a American musical romantic comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Mimi returns the coat, paying the courier not to disclose her contact information.

Appalled, Mimi mistakes him for the co-respondent who she has been expecting, considering him not much more than a gigolo. He sings Cole Porter 's " Night and Day " to her, and they fall under a spell while dancing together. Guy Holden, a famous American dancer, is at a Paris nightclub with his friend, scatterbrained English lawyer Egbert Fitzgerald, when they both realize that they have forgotten their wallets.

Taking a shortcut, Guy sets up a fake roadblock, trapping her, offering her an impromptu picnic and casually proposing marriage. Although most of the songs were replaced, the screenplay kept the original plot of the stage version. The stage version included many songs by Cole Porter that were left out of the film, except for " Night and Day ".

Accompanying his friend Egbert to the hotel, the besotted and unaware Guy encounters Mimi, who has warmed up to him, and admits that she attempted to contact the phone number that he gave her. When Mimi gives Guy her room number and makes it clear that she expects him "at midnight", Guy is astonished by her seemingly brazen attitude.

After Guy dances for the audience to avoid washing dishes to work off the bill, Egbert discovers his wallet in a different pocket. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired. In an unrelated previous conversation with Guy, Egbert had been impressed when Guy philosophically used the phrase, "Chance is the fool's name for fate".

Convinced that he is insane, she rebuffs his attempts to charm her and attempts to tear up notes with his phone number but keeps onebut he learns that her name is Mimi.

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The Gay Divorcee was the second after Flying Down to Rio of ten pairings of Astaire and Rogers on film and their first one as a duo in leading roles. Coincidentally, Mimi seeks a divorce from her geologist husband, Cyril Glossop, who she has not seen for some time.

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. Without Guy's knowledge and without intending any connection, Egbert gives Mimi the expression as a code phrase to identify her co-respondent. [2] It also features Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, and Eric Blore.

Taking advantage of the situation, Guy teases her and attempts to free her dress, but ends up tearing the skirt at thigh level, angering Mimi. Wanting to impress Mimi, Guy waxes philosophical, inadvertently using the code phrase that Egbert has given Mimi to identify the co-respondent.

Three members of the play's original cast repeated their stage roles: Astaire, Rhodes and Blore.