A Bill of Divorcement (1932)

Directed by

George Cukor

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 14m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman wants to divorce her husband who has been declared insane after World War I. Her daughter returns home from school and must decide whether to stay and care for her father or pursue her own future.

melancholictenseemotionally chargeddramaticthoughtfulrestrainedsoberfamily-centered

What happens

A Bill of Divorcement is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn in her film debut. It is based on the 1921 British play of the same name, written by Clemence Dane as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman to divorce her husband. It was the second screen adaptation of the play; the first was a 1922 British silent film also titled A Bill of Divorcement. The film was made again in 1940 by RKO Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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