Academy Awards, USA 1935
| Won Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Con Conrad (music) Herb Magidson (lyrics)
For the song "The Continental".
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| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture |
| Best Art Direction Van Nest Polglase Carroll Clark | |
| Best Sound, Recording Carl Dreher (sound director) | |
| Best Music, Score Max Steiner (head of department)
Score by Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein.
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RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Mark Sandrich
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Bros.)
Ginger Rogers travels to England with her domineering aunt to get a quick divorce from her absentee husband. They hire incompetent lawyer Edward Everett Horton to stage a tryst in a hotel room with a hired Italian lover. Meanwhile, Fred Astaire falls in love with her at first sight when she steps off the boat and searches in vain for her all over London. By coincidence, he is friends with lawyer Horton, and goes with him to the seaside hotel where the arranged lover is to meet Rogers. Instead, Fred and Ginger dance the night away to "Night and Day" by Cole Porter and "The Continental" in the big finale. Featherlight romantic comedy typical of the time period.
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