Norma Shearer
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The Divorcee was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 8, 2008 (along with A Free Soul, also starring Norma Shearer), as one of five pre-Code films in the "TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2" DVD box set. Other movies with the same title were released in 1917, 1919, and 1969. [citation needed] Reception
The Divorcee: Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. With Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery. When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
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- Romance, Drama
- Robert Z. Leonard
- 1930-04-19
After three years of marriage, Ted (Chester Morris) has an affair that threatens to destroy his happiness with wife Jerry (Norma Shearer), as she returns the favor by pursuing Don (Robert ...
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- Norma Shearer
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Drama
A classic pairing of one of the Hollywood musical's most famous couples, The Gay Divorcee (1934) was the second film team-up of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and follows the frustrating efforts of American dancer Guy Holden (Astaire) to woo an unhappily married woman, Mimi Glossop (Rogers), who's in the process of divorcing her deadbeat husband.
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Norma Shearer
Distraught Paul gets drunk and wrecks his car, disfiguring young Dorothy's face in the process. Out of pity, Paul marries Dorothy. Years later, the apparent perfect marriage of Ted and Jerry falls apart from infidelity on both sides. Inwardly unhappy, popular Jerry lives a party life while Ted sinks into a life of alcoholism.
Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on Ex-Wife, a 1929 Ursula Parrott novel. ...
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