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Payment on Demand: Directed by Curtis Bernhardt. With Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl, Kent Taylor. The film is about divorce but with flashbacks as to why divorce occurs.
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- Drama
- Curtis Bernhardt
- 1951-02-03
The story of the breakdown of a marriage was the subject of Curtis Bernhardt's film Payment on Demand (1951), which starred Bette Davis as a woman who pushes her lawyer husband (Barry Sullivan) to the top.
- Curtis Bernhardt, Lowell Farrell
- Bette Davis
Payment on Demand is a 1951 American drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Bette Davis and Barry Sullivan. The screenplay by Bernhardt and Bruce Manning chronicles a marriage from its idealistic early days to its dissolution.
181M subscribers. Subscribed. Screen legend and Academy Award-winner Bette Davis ("All About Eve," "Dark Victory") stars with Emmy-nominee Barry Sullivan ("Rich Man, Poor Man") in this...
Synopsis. The Ramseys, David and Joyce (Barry Sullivan and Bette Davis), have been married for about 21 years and have two daughters (Betty Lynn and Peggie Castle). One day, a grumpy David comes home and announces that he wants a divorce.
Payment on Demand - (Original Trailer) A bitter divorcee (Bette Davis) thinks back on the mistakes that destroyed her marriage in Payment on Demand (1951).
Overview. David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean.
