The Divorcee
1930
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Academy Award Actor 1932 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 1932 · Nominated
A Free Soul became famous for Barrymore's climactic courtroom monologue that is said to be the main reason he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 4th Academy Awards that year.
A Free Soul: Directed by Clarence Brown. With Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable. An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Clarence Brown
- 1931-06-20
Academy Awards, USA. 1931 Winner Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Lionel Barrymore. 1931 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Norma Shearer. 1931 Nominee Oscar. Best Director.
Stephen Ashe, a famous criminal lawyer, lives in San Francisco and is adored by his free-spirited daughter Jan. One day, Stephen, a freethinker who drinks too heavily and hates everyone in his family except for Jan, is invited by Grandma Ashe to a family dinner.
- Clarence Brown, Charles Dorian
- Norma Shearer
Feb 17, 2016 · A Free Soul isn’t the first pre-Code film to embrace the idea of ‘the natural law’, and it certainly wouldn’t be the last. That’s the ‘unwritten rule’ that men have a right to defend a woman’s virtue, up to and including murder if necessary.
Brown received an Oscar nomination for the…. …an alcoholic defense attorney in A Free Soul (1931) won him an Academy Award as best actor. He appeared with his brother, John, in Grand Hotel (1932) and with both John and their sister, Ethel, in Rasputin and the Empress (1932).
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A Free Soul stars Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, and Clark Gable. A Free Soul became famous for a sequence where Barrymore delivers a monologue that is said to be the main reason he won the Academy Award for Best Actor that year.
