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Divorcee and was
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.
Shearer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress on six occasions, winning only for The Divorcee in 1930.
'" On the film's release, the script was panned by many critics, who alleged it was merely a rewrite of The Gay Divorcee.
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.
Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Roberta ( 1935 ), Top Hat ( 1935 ), Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ), Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), Carefree ( 1938 ), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939 ) ( The Barkleys of Broadway ( 1949 ) was produced later at MGM ).
" 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.
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.
Shearer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but lost to herself, for The Divorcee.
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.
It was made into a musical film by RKO Radio Pictures in 1934, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and renamed The Gay Divorcee.
An instrumental version was used as background music at the beginning of MGM's 1930 " The Divorcee " starring Norma Shearer.
" 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.

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

Divorcee and on
The Divorcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott.
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.
There he worked on films such as: Fox Movietone Follies, Palmy Days, The Gay Divorcee and Here ’ s to Romance.

Divorcee and DVD
# Shake Your Powder Puff ( Freleng / 9-29 / The Gay Divorcee DVD )- 1934

Divorcee and by
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.
" 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
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 )

Divorcee and Home
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 ).

Divorcee and along
In 1934, he won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song along with Con Conrad for his lyrics to " The Continental ", used in The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ) starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

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

Divorcee and Free
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 ).

Divorcee and also
Many of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the 1930s also feature screwball comedy plots, notably The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ) and Top Hat ( 1935 ).
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 ).

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

Divorcee and Shearer
* 1930-Norma Shearer in The Divorcee

Divorcee and ),
Astaire and Rogers made ten films together, including The Gay Divorcee, Roberta ( 1935 ), Top Hat ( 1935 ), Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ), Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), and Carefree ( 1938 ).

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

Divorcee and .
* 1870 The Divorcee.
He received his first two Oscar nominations for John Ford's 1934 film The Lost Patrol, and the same year for The Gay Divorcee.
* " Don't Let It Bother You " w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel from the film The Gay Divorcee

was and released
For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.
The kiss outraged our friends but it was done and meanwhile had released in me all the remote, exciting premonitions of lust, all the mysterious sensations that I had imagined a truly consummated kiss would convey to me.
By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.
A copy was released to the press.
Fuchs, after nine and a half years, was released, being given time off for good behavior.
The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.
Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?
The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.
In 1996, a tenth anniversary edition was released.
A port was in development for the 5200 and advertised as a launch title but never officially released, although an unofficial release was produced by AtariAge.
( This package was released for the PC a year earlier under the title Atari: 80 Classic Games in One.
Asteroids was released via Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 on November 28, 2007, with an option for special revamped HD graphics and a high-speed " throttle monkey " mode.
Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.
The discovery was kept secret and only released to the public in November 1945.
However, no new edition was released before Guardians of Order went out of business in 2006.
Arista's refusal to release the album had two known effects: the negotiations led to a renewed contract and the album was never released.
In 2010 Eye to Eye: Alan Parsons Project Live in Madrid was released on CD.
An optional board providing a cassette interface for storage was later released at a cost of $ 72.
A software-compatible clone of the Apple I ( Replica 1 ), produced using modern components, was released in 2003 at a price of around $ 200.
The initial funds were released in September, and the 11-tube prototype was first demonstrated in October, 1939.

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