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The Gay Divorcee
1934 · Film · 105 min
Directed by Mark Sandrich
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
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Compare Astaire's dance movies with the awful ones they make to day, which are more a sequence of quick cut sweaty frenetic gymnastic fragments than dancing. I can almost hear the director yelling "More energy! Hit that line harder!"
Astaire's movies would film the complete dance in one cut, and show his full body. His dances were about style, elegance, and complete mastery.
See "Top Hat" and "The Gay Divorcee".
The classic Astaire-Rogers film, The Gay Divorcee, turns on a not-that-different practice that was common in England in order to get a divorce where a professional co-respondent would be hired to enable a divorce on the grounds of adultery. I turned up this article on non-fictional uses of co-respondents: http://www.queensilver.org/gstory2.htm