# The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 film about an American woman who travels to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband. She meets - and falls for - a dashing performer.
    Directed by Mark Sandrich. Written by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, and Edward Kaufman, based on the 1932 musical Gay Divorce by Dwight Taylor.

## Guy Holden

* Chance is the fool's name for fate.
* You think I'm going to leave you alone with a strange Italian? He might be a tenor!

## Aunt Hortense

* You know, you're beginning to fascinate me, and I resent that in any man.
* Be feminine and sweet, if you can blend the two.

## Tonetti

* Your wife is safe with Tonetti; he prefers spaghetti.

## Dialogue

    Aunt Hortense: [Going with Mimi to check into the hotel] Oh, Egbert, are you coming with us?
    Egbert Fitzgerald: What? Hortense, oh my. You can't remain with her. This is supposed to be a clandestine affair. You can't have a clandestine affair between three people!
    Tonetti: Rodolfo Tonetti at your service.
    Egbert Fitzgerald: Yes... well, I am Mr. Fitzgerald.
    Tonetti: Mr. Fitzgerald? [shaking hands] Oh, I'm delightful!
    Egbert Fitzgerald: Oh, I shouldn't doubt it, old man, I shouldn't doubt it. But, don't you think that a corespondent ought to come to work quieter? Let's have more repose and less Rigoletto.
    Tonetti: Ha, I am ready for action, and I will do a first-class job.
    Egbert Fitzgerald: Well, don't be too determined about it. Remember, the lady in question is very sensitive, and you must treat her accordingly.
    Tonetti: Bene, whichever way the wind she is blowing, that is the way I sail.
    Egbert Fitzgerald: And now, Tonetti, remember: I want delicacy, tact, assurance, finesse.
    Tonetti: I've brought everything.
    Waiter: I have an unnatural passion for rocks.
    Guy Holden: You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
    Waiter: Professor Brown, he's a geologist. Him and his wife stopped at the last place I worked. Do you know sir, it was Professor Brown who told me that this sea coast 'round here is really a... an igneous intrusion.
    Guy Holden: You know, you're somewhat of an igneous intrusion yourself.
    Waiter: Oh thank you sir!
    Guy Holden: I wonder if she resented me tearing her skirt?
    Egbert Fitzgerald: Well, I wouldn't at all be surprised. That's the usual reaction. What did you do that for?
    Guy Holden: She couldn't move.
    Egbert Fitzgerald: Sounds very unsporting of you, Guy, really!
    Guy Holden: Well, you don't understand... uh... it was an accident.
    Egbert Fitzgerald: It usually is.
    Egbert Fitzgerald: Guy, you're not pining for that girl?!
    Guy Holden: Pining? Men don't pine. Girls pine. Men just... suffer.
    Mimi Glossop: Oh, here you are Hortense. I've just had the most embarrassing experience. A man tore my dress off!
    Aunt Hortense: My goodness! Anyone we know?
    Guy Holden: I was chasing you, you shouldn't run away like that.
    Mimi Glossop: Why not?
    Guy Holden: It's bad for my health.
    Mimi Glossop: I don't care what you did as a boy.
    Guy Holden: Well, I did nothing as a girl, so there goes my childhood.
    Mimi Glossop: Please don't ask me to stay.
    Guy Holden: All right, I won't. Don't go!
    Guy Holden: Can I offer you anything? Frosted chocolate? Cointreau? Benedictine? Marriage?
    Mimi Glossop: What was that last one?
    Guy Holden: Benedictine?
    Mimi Glossop: No, the one after that.
    Guy Holden: Oh, marriage?
    Mimi Glossop: Do you always propose marriage as casually as that?
    Guy Holden: There is nothing casual about it. In fact, I've given it long and sincere thought.
    Tonetti: Signora. Fate is a foolish thing to take chances with!
    Aunt Hortense: [pause] So are you.

## Taglines

* Musical Triumph Of Two Continents
* The King and Queen of 'Carioca'
* Introducing the new dance sensation "The Continental"

## Cast

* Fred Astaire - Guy Holden
* Ginger Rogers - Mimi Glossop
* Alice Brady - Aunt Hortense
* Edward Everett Horton - Egbert Fitzgerald
* Erik Rhodes - Tonetti
* Eric Blore - The Waiter
* William Austin - Cyril Glossop
* Charles Coleman - The Valet
* Lillian Miles - Guest
* Betty Grable - Guest

## External links

* The Gay Divorcee quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* The Gay Divorcee at Allmovie
* The Gay Divorcee at Mojo