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A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 5 nominations total
Norman Ainsley
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Aubrey
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Finis Barton
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Eleanor Bayley
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
De Don Blunier
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
Pokey Champion
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
- Night Club Patron
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe musical number "The Continental" lasts 17 1/2 minutes, the longest number ever in a musical until Gene Kelly's 18 1/2-minute ballet at the end of An American in Paris (1951) 17 years later. It is also the longest musical number in all of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' films together.
- GoofsCrew member coughs after the chase scene, picnic basket on running board and he's going through item list directly after she says, "After that."
- Quotes
Tonetti: [unable to remember his passphrase "Chance is a fool's name for fate," Tonettie repeatedly muffs it] Chance is the foolish name for fate. / Give me a name for chance and I am a fool. / Fate is a foolish thing to take chances with. / I am a fate to take foolish chances with. / Chances are that fate is foolish. / Fate is the foolish thing. Take a chance.
- Alternate versionsIn the version of the movie released in Brazil in the 1930s, the Brazilian actor Raul Roulien sang in the musical number "The Continental".
- ConnectionsEdited into Joan of Paris (1942)
- SoundtracksDon't Let It Bother You
(1934)
Music and Lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel
Dance performed by Fred Astaire
Featured review
A good warm up for "Top Hat"
This was the first RKO film that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers did in which they are the central characters. In the first two they play wise cracking supporting roles, and if you don't know what is going on you might say "Hey, why don't Gene Raymond and Delores Del Rio get out of the way and let Fred and Ginger do their stuff?". It was because Fred and Ginger as a team were a bit of a surprise to RKO.
At any rate, like I said, this seems like a warm up for "Top Hat" a year later, but it is still a great film. But the two share a few pieces of the basic formula. Fred and Ginger meet in such a way that annoys Ginger and gets Fred interested, and once Ginger begins to return Fred's affection a complete misunderstanding that Fred knows nothing about causes Ginger to lose all interest in a now confused Fred. Edward Everett Horton plays Fred's loyal but befuddled friend, and Eric Blore, who at first seems like a minor character who is in the film mainly to flummox Horton's character plays a much bigger part in the plot than you would ever imagine. Erik Rhodes plays an Italian who never really has a chance as third vertex in a triangle in which the other two are Fred and Ginger, but he plays that part with great comic style.
A couple of mistakes fixed by "Top Hat" that this one has - First, Fred Astaire is given no solo dance numbers. Second, too much Alice Brady can get annoying. In "Top Hat" her part is taken by Helen Broderick who had a great dry comic wit.
Still, highly recommended.
At any rate, like I said, this seems like a warm up for "Top Hat" a year later, but it is still a great film. But the two share a few pieces of the basic formula. Fred and Ginger meet in such a way that annoys Ginger and gets Fred interested, and once Ginger begins to return Fred's affection a complete misunderstanding that Fred knows nothing about causes Ginger to lose all interest in a now confused Fred. Edward Everett Horton plays Fred's loyal but befuddled friend, and Eric Blore, who at first seems like a minor character who is in the film mainly to flummox Horton's character plays a much bigger part in the plot than you would ever imagine. Erik Rhodes plays an Italian who never really has a chance as third vertex in a triangle in which the other two are Fred and Ginger, but he plays that part with great comic style.
A couple of mistakes fixed by "Top Hat" that this one has - First, Fred Astaire is given no solo dance numbers. Second, too much Alice Brady can get annoying. In "Top Hat" her part is taken by Helen Broderick who had a great dry comic wit.
Still, highly recommended.
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Box office
- Budget
- $520,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $6,879
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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