Astaire reacted negatively to the first drafts, complaining that " it is patterned too closely after The Gay Divorcee ", and " I am cast as ... a sort of objectionable young man without charm or sympathy or humour ".

The routine ends as Astaire, now dancing with a statue, is interrupted by Rogers ' entrance, a scene which, as in The Gay Divorcee and Roberta, typifies the way in which Astaire inadvertently incurs the hostility of Rogers, only to find her attractive and wear down her resistance.

" The Continental " is a song written by Con Conrad with lyrics by Herb Magidson, and was introduced by Ginger Rogers in the 1934 film, The Gay Divorcee.

Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but for most of the Pre-Code film era beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies.

There she took a series of sensual portraits which convinced her husband that she could play the lead in MGM's racy new film, The Divorcee ( 1930 ).

Shearer won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee, and a series of highly successful pre-Code films followed, including Let Us Be Gay ( 1930 ), Strangers May Kiss ( 1931 ), A Free Soul ( 1931 ), Private Lives ( 1931 ) and Riptide ( 1934 ).

Shearer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress on six occasions, winning only for The Divorcee in 1930.

* The Divorcee ( 1930 )

* The Divorcee ( 1930 )

Norma Shearer chose him to star opposite her in The Divorcee ( 1930 ), Strangers May Kiss ( 1931 ), and Private Lives ( 1931 ), which led to stardom on a high rank.

* The Divorcee ( 1930 )

An instrumental version was used as background music at the beginning of MGM's 1930 " The Divorcee " starring Norma Shearer.

* The Divorcee ( 1930 )

He first wrote lyrics for The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), and many more films, including: No, No, Nanette ( 1930 ), Gift of Gab ( 1934 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Here's to Romance ( 1935 ), George White's 1935 Scandals ( 1935 ), King Solomon of Broadway ( 1935 ), Miss Pacific Fleet ( 1935 ), The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), Hats Off ( 1936 ), I'd Give My Life ( 1936 ), Radio City Revels ( 1938 ), and Sing Your Way Home ( 1945 ).

Rogers also introduced some celebrated numbers from the Great American Songbook, songs such as Harry Warren and Al Dubin's " The Gold Diggers ' Song ( We're in the Money )" from Gold Diggers of 1933 ( 1933 ), " Music Makes Me " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Irving Berlin's " Let Yourself Go " from Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), the Gershwins ' " Embraceable You " from Girl Crazy and " They All Laughed ( at Christopher Columbus )" from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

He received his first two Oscar nominations for John Ford's 1934 film The Lost Patrol, and the same year for The Gay Divorcee.

According to popular film lore, Shearer was originally never in the running for the lead role in The Divorcee because it was believed that she didn't have enough sex appeal ; it was only after Shearer arranged a special photo session with studio portrait photographer George Hurrell and her husband saw the result, that he relented and gave her the role.

" The success of the stage play was credited to this number, and when recreated in the film version of the play The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), it ushered in a new era in filmed dance.

" Astaire maintained this policy from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ) onwards ( until overruled by Francis Ford Coppola, who directed Finian's Rainbow ( 1968 ), Astaire's last film musical ).

Introduced by Ginger Rogers in the film The Gay Divorcee

* " Don't Let It Bother You " w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel from the film The Gay Divorcee

It was made into a musical film by RKO Radio Pictures in 1934, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and renamed The Gay Divorcee.

He performed it again in the 1934 film version of the show, renamed The Gay Divorcee, and it became one of his signature pieces.

Berlin, who lavished a great deal of effort on the song designed it as a pastiche of " The Carioca " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ) and " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), and the lyric communicates its fake origin: " It was written by a Latin / A gondolier who sat in / his home out in Brooklyn / and gazed at the stars.

The Divorcee was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 8, 2008 ( along with A Free Soul, also starring Norma Shearer ), as one of five Pre-Code films in the " TCM Archives-Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol.

'" On the film's release, the script was panned by many critics, who alleged it was merely a rewrite of The Gay Divorcee.

A Free Soul was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 8, 2008 ( along with The Divorcee, also starring Norma Shearer ), as one of five Pre-Code films in the " TCM Archives-Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol.

Clare Bowditch made a reference to Fitzroy in the song Divorcee by 23, as did the musical comedian The Bedroom Philosopher in the song Northcote ( So Hungover ).

See the discussion by Rabbi Arnold Goodman in Solemnizing the Marriage Between a Kohen and a Divorcee p. 2 ( bottom ) p. 3 ( top.

* Bitter Divorcee Lizzie, ( played by Elaine C Smith ) an attractive 30-something woman who ( like Drunk Sloane ) delivers monologues about her divorce, only from her bedroom, not a wine bar.

In 1910, an English adaptation of The Girl in the Train ( Die geschiedene Frau – literally, " The Divorcee "), a 1908 Viennese operetta by Leo Fall ), opened at the Vaudeville.

* The Gay Divorcee ( 1934, sung by Fred Astaire ; danced by Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers )

In March 2008, two of her most famous pre-code films, The Divorcee and A Free Soul, were released on DVD.

There he worked on films such as: Fox Movietone Follies, Palmy Days, The Gay Divorcee and Here ’ s to Romance.

* 1870 The Divorcee.

She lost out to Irving Thalberg's wife, Norma Shearer, who won for The Divorcee.

Shearer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but lost to herself, for The Divorcee.

Some of his noteworthy films include The Front Page ( 1931 ), Trouble in Paradise ( 1932 ), Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Top Hat ( 1935, one of several Astaire / Rogers films in which Horton appeared ), Danger-Love at Work ( 1937 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

His stage work in the musical Gay Divorcee with Fred Astaire earned him a role in films.

Novarro was impressed with the results and showed them to the actress Norma Shearer, who was attempting to mould her wholesome image into something more glamorous and sophisticated in an attempt to land the title role in the movie The Divorcee.

The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.

The former is equivalent in ZF to the existence of an ultrafilter containing each given filter, proved by Tarski in 1930.

* 1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.

* 1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.

* 1930 – BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.

Today the altarpiece is dismantled and the predellas depicting the two final scenes, Entombment and Resurrection were sold to Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 1923 and 1930.

Abano Terme ( known as Abano Bagni until 1930 ) is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei ; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from Padua.

* 1930: The temporary Manseibashi Subway Station opens ; it is closed in November 1931.

The Museum Island in the River Spree houses five museums built from 1830 to 1930 and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

* c. 1930: Monopoly stabilises into the version that is currently popular.

The Turks called the city Istanbul ( though not officially renamed until 1930 ) and it has remained Turkey's largest and most populous city, although Ankara is now the capital.

A return to New Zealand was accompanied by a desire to avoid the controversy of 1930 and so red replaced blue for the jersey with the resultant kit being that which is still worn today, the combination of red jersey, white shorts and green and blue socks, representing the four unions.

Charles McCarry ( born 1930 Massachusetts, USA ) is an American writer primarily of spy fiction.

Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt, Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids ; he also called for serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

During his final school years he began writing his poetry in notebooks, the first poem dated 27 April ( 1930 ), is entitled " Osiris, come to Isis ".

Eugene Allen " Gene " Hackman ( born January 30, 1930 ) is a retired American actor and novelist.

The proof of Gödel's completeness theorem given by Kurt Gödel in his doctoral dissertation of 1929 ( and a rewritten version of the dissertation, published as an article in 1930 ) is not easy to read today ; it uses concepts and formalism that are outdated and terminology that is often obscure.

His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also responsible for other well-known comic book series such as Quick & Flupke ( 1930 – 1940 ) and Jo, Zette and Jocko ( 1936 – 1957 ).

* Mood Indigo ( 1930 ) is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.

Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles ( 1929 ), and the films Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Les Parents terribles ( 1948 ), Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ), and Orpheus ( 1949 ).

Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles ( 1929 ), and the films Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Les Parents terribles ( 1948 ), Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ), and Orpheus ( 1949 ).

* 1930 – Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100, 000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.