Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing a socialite who finds her husband is cheating and decides to experiment with extra-marital affairs of her own.
The Divorcee
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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. Shearer is Jerry, a socialite who marries handsome Ted (Chester Morris) after a whirlwind courtship. But Ted is not exactly the faithful type and after three years of what she in her naïveté considered marital bliss, Jerry learns of his affair with Janice (Mary Doran). "It meant nothing," Ted assures her but Jerry is devastated and decides to investigate adultery for herself by sleeping with Ted's best friend, Don (Robert Montgomery). When she discovers that the old double-standard still applies, Jerry announces that henceforth Ted, and only Ted, is no longer welcome in her bed. After a string of lovers who mean little or nothing to her, Jerry falls for an old flame, Paul (Conrad Nagel), but when she understands the effect their affair has on Paul's poor disfigured wife, Dorothy (Helen Johnson, aka Judith Wood), Jerry returns to Ted, who still loves her despite it all.
Cast and crew
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Robert Z. Leonard
Director -
Zelda Sears
Writer, Hannah -
Norma Shearer
Jerry -
Robert Montgomery
Don -
Chester Morris
Ted -
Conrad Nagel
Paul -
Florence Eldridge
Helen -
Helene Millard
Mary -
Robert Elliott
Bill -
Mary Doran
Janice -
Tyler Brooke
Hank -
George Irving
Dr. Bernard -
Judith Wood
Dorothy -
Ursula Parrott
Writer -
Nick Grinde
Writer
Additional information
Directors
Robert Z. LeonardDirectors
Studio
Warner Bros.Studio
Subtitles
English (CC)Subtitles
Released year
1930Released year
Duration
1 h 21 minDuration
Genres
DramaGenres
Writers
Ursula ParrottNick Grinde
Zelda Sears
Writers
Nick Grinde
Zelda Sears
Size
3.63 GB (1080p HD)2.2 GB (720p HD)
1.34 GB (SD)
Size
2.2 GB (720p HD)
1.34 GB (SD)
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