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Gay Divorce is a theater musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein.

Songs

"After You, Who?"
"Fate"
"How's Your Romance?"
"I Love Only You"
"I Still Love the Red, White and Blue"
"I've Got You on My Mind"
"Mister and Missus Fitch"
"Night and Day"
"Salt Air"
"A Weekend Affair"
"What Will Become of Our England?"
"Why Marry Them?"
"You're in Love"

Broadway production

The show opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 29, 1932 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre on January 16, 1933 for a total run of 248 performances. It was directed by Howard Lindsay.

Cast:

Fred Astaire
as Guy Holden
Claire Luce as Mimi
Luella Gear as Hortense
G. P. Huntley Jr as Teddy
Betty Starbuck as Barbara Wray
Erik Rhodes
as Tonetti
Eric Blore
as Waiter
Roland Bottomley as Pratt

London production

The show opened at the Palace Theatre on November 2, 1933 and ran for 180 performances. It was directed by Felix Edwardes.

Cast:

Fred Astaire
as Guy Holden
Claire Luce as Mimi
Olive Blakeney as Gertrude Howard
Claud Allister as Teddy
Joan Gardner as Barbara Wray
Erik Rhodes
as Tonetti
Eric Blore
as Waiter
Fred Hearne as Octavius Mann

1934 RKO Radio Pictures film

Titled The Gay Divorcee
, the film version was directed by Mark Sandrich and produced by Pandro Berman.

New songs for the film:

"The Continental" (w. Herb Magidson m. Con Conrad)
"Don't Let It Bother You" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel)
"Let's K-nock K-nees" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel)
"Needle in a Haystack" (w. Herb Magidson m. Con Conrad)

Cast:

Fred Astaire
as Guy Holden
Ginger Rogers
as Mimi Glossop/Mrs. Green
Alice Brady
as Aunt Hortense
Edward Everett Horton
as Egbert Fitzgerald
Erik Rhodes
as Rodolfo Tonetti
Eric Blore
as Waiter
Betty Grable
as Guest

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