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  Review by Eva Mackey ★★★½ 3

  where are the gays???

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  Review by Kieron Moore ★★ 4

  They dance the Continental.

  They dance until they ache, and they keep on dancing. They dance until their muscles give in, and they keep on dancing. They dance until they sleep, and they keep on dancing.

  Is it the magic of cinema keeping them going? The magic that kept Harold Lloyd hanging to the clock, that turned the gears of Metropolis, that came out of Al Jolson's mouth?

  Or is it a darker magic?

  The paper cutout of two lovers spins on the record player. Once, their deception would have been obvious. Before the Continental began. Now no-one notices. No-one cares.

  Ginger sees something flicker over Fred's once-handsome face as he grabs her waist. A grey hair. Has it been…

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  Review by Jonny ★★★ 2

  The movie isn't over as I'm writing this review but they are still dancing The Contenental and show no signs of stopping so I'm getting it in now in case I got stuck in some infinite loop situation.

  Anyways, you can always tell it's going to be a top tier Fred and Ginger film if my boys Edward Everett and Eric Blore are there.

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  Review by eely 🎄 ★★★ 2

  fred astaire was low key a creep in this but ginger rogers danced the continental directly into my heart.

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  Review by Bre ★★★★ 1

  Tired: watching Fred & Ginger movies for Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
  Wired: watching Fred & Ginger movies for Edward Everett Horton and Eric Blore 

  
  “Your wife is safe with Tonetti, he prefers spaghetti!” is still the funniest line in any movie ever.

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★

  There's a certain level of creepy that comes with the cat and mouse games of courtship in movies from the 30s and 40s, but this one just goes WAY BEYOND!

  Like, Fred Astaire literally chases her car into the forest, until she is trapped, blocks her car in with his, and insists that she marry him. She had asked him nearly 20 times to leave her alone. This made for some unintentional comedy, but overall gave me a sense of unease with Astaire that I'd never felt before.

  The dance number at the end was Busby Berkeley-esque, and had much less dancing from the two of them then their other collaborations. That being said, all the dance numbers were spectacular as per usual, I was just not in on the plot of this one at all.

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★★ 10

  Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - it was love at second sight. Or rather, at the duo’s second film pairing together. It took the two receiving star billing - and the touch of director Mark Sandrich - to turn a perfect pair into the stuff of legend. 

  Rogers and Astaire first appeared as a couple one year before “The Gay Divorcee” — in Thornton Freeland’s “Flying Down to Rio.” They received below-the-line credit in the film, but, in less than a year, RKO Pictures granted the new duo their own feature. 

  That was 1934’s “The Gay Divorcee,” helmed by Sandrich, who went on to direct Rogers and Astaire in some of their best-loved features, including 1935’s “Top Hat.” Sandrich was…

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  Review by nora ★★★½

  my favorite exchanges:

  "the world's full of girls."
  "i know, i know. but not like her. she's music, she's the buzzing of the bees in clover. she's the rustle of the leaves in trees. she's water lapping on the shore."
  "she seems like a series of strange noises to me."

  "beg your pardon, ma'am. but that's very WHUMsical."
  "what?"
  "very WHUMsical."
  "you mean WHIMsical, don't you?"
  "in a matter of speaking, yes ma'am."
  "then why not WHAMsical then?"
  "pardon, ma'am. but WHUMsical's much more WHIMsical than WHAMsical."
  "you know, you're beginning to fascinate me and i resent that in any man."

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  Review by Taylor Leverage ★★★ 3

  Fred Astaire is busting out a 'ROAD CLOSED' sign that he just happens to have, like a live-action Bugs Bunny.

  The Gay Divorcee is the second of the film collaborations between Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and it's relatively obvious - their chemistry together isn't as refined and jubilant as it would become in later years, but individually both are charming as heck. Rogers is a dismissive, slightly jaded, but very clever young woman trying to put some distance between herself and the oddly persistent Astaire, who is suave but can't take a hint to save his life. Astaire is clearly hitting all the right notes with his quick-talking mannerisms and constant antics that make him seem a bit like…

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  Review by Tylot Lantern ★★★½

  The 1930s, a time when stalking was considered romantic. If it wasn’t for this being an Astaire and Rogers musical I would’ve hated it.

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  Review by Cole Duffy ★★½ 1

  No gays despite the title, 0/10.

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  Review by LePage ★★½ 1

  Three fun facts:

  - Ginger Rogers plays a character named "Mimi Glossop."
  - Around 25 minutes in you can hear one of the crew members sneeze.
  - There's a musical number where a bunch of young hot strangers start kicking each other in the kneecaps because they want to bang but society won't let them.