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The Divorcee. The Divorcee is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan, and Zelda Sears, based on the 1929 novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The film was also nominated for Best Picture, and won Best Actress for its ...
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
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
Aug 29, 2003 · The Divorce: Directed by James Ivory. With Kate Hudson, Jean-Marie Lhomme, Naomi Watts, Esmée Buchet-Deàk. French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her sister and French brother-in-law and niece in Paris.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- James Ivory
- 2003-08-29
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.
Feb 17, 2016 · These traits of The Divorcee can be off-putting, though I can tell you a lot of films from 1930 were far more awkward and stilted than this film, let alone lacking any sense of visual wit. The Divorcee is a high water mark for early talking pictures, a fine job at grappling the new medium with wit and verve. The scandalous subject matter being ...
The Divorcee is a 1930 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, and Robert Montgomery. Shearer is Jerry, a carefree young woman in the New York upper-crust. All the young eligible bachelors in New York society want her, including Ted (Morris), Paul (Nagel), and Don (Montgomery).
