People loved their musicals and fred estaire made a few bucks from it. As scripted by nick grinde, zelda sears, and john meehan, the divorcee was audacious and steamy for its times. A movie about, essentially, the perils of revenge sex for women. Leonard so look for me in the future where the primroses grow and pack your mans pride with the rest. The divorcee is often listed as one of the most important and scintillating films of precode hollywood, usually to the confusion of many who actually watch it. Its doubtful that a movie with such outrv sexual politics could have been made after 1934, when hollywood reinstated the production code, a censorship system that prevailed for over 30 years. Buy the divorcee movie posters from movie poster shop.
Leonard, starring norma shearer, chester morris, conrad nagel, and robert montgomery. Also difficult to believe is that norma shearer wasnt the first choice for the role. Drama 1930 1 hr 23 min available on itunes norma shearer earned an academy award for playing the not so gay divorcee in this precode offering based, loosely, on exwife, a 1929 ursula parrott novel. It also features alice brady, edward everett horton, eric blore, and erik rhodes. In 1920 her mother, edith shearer, took norma and her sister athole shearer mrs. Shearer is jerry, a carefree young woman in the new york uppercrust. The divorcee 1930 norma shearer earned an academy award for playing a socialite who findsher husband is cheating and decides to experiment with extramarital affairs of her own. Rent the divorcee a free soul 1930 on dvd and bluray. Norma shearer is fantastic as jerry, a woman with free thinking beliefs so bold her husband pronounces them as striking as any mans. Norma shearer was a very pretty lady with regular features and an angular jaw theres a facial resemblance to mary astor or even andie macdowell. Shearer played a similar role in let us be gay 1930. Passed 1h 24min romance, drama 19 april 1930 usawhen a woman discovers. Difficult to believe for modern audiences, the divorcee was groundbreaking cinema.
This vhs of the divorcee is dubbed from a clean print with few flaws and only one minor break. Leonard, who was nominated for the academy award for best director. Norma shearer, although not remembered by the general public today, was a shimmering movie star of the highest order. If you watch the movie and you dont like it because its not in color, there are no special effects, etc.
In 1933, the standard practice of one film per nominee took. Norma shearer earned an academy award for playing the not so gay divorcee in this precode offering based, loosely, on exwife, a 1929 ursula parrott novel. Watch the divorcee full movie in hd visit movie 80708 when a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she deci. It also features alice brady, edward everett horton, eric blore, and erik rhodes, and was based on the broadway musical gay divorce, written by dwight taylor from an unproduced play by j. May 23, 2019 the divorcee was one of the most famous movies of the precode period, and one constantly pointed as an example of how the industry had to walk backwards after censorship started. Chester morris, conrad nagel and robert montgomery. The divorcee earned shearer the 1930 best actress oscar for her portrayal of a new york city party girl who gets caught up in a painful circle of adultery. Other movies with the same title were released in 1917, 1919, and 1969.
Originally it was a mix of old favorites and never seen, but recently i have been focusing on never seen. Bing crosby was in his fair share of films as well. Norma shearer as jerry, in an early provocative role, with husband ted chester morris discovering shes not so comfortable after all with their open marriage, in the divorcee, 1930. Divorcee, the 1930 movie clip any way she likes airing. Hanemann, and stanley rauh made uncredited contributions to the dialogue. The late 1930s were unbelievable in both quality and quantity. Often cited as the first film in the most dangerous era in classic movies, the divorcee must have shocked 1930 viewers with its frankness and honesty about a modern marriage. The divorcee 1930 romance, drama video dailymotion. A group of new yorkbased friends frequently socialize together. The movie was bold and daring and way ahead of its time good performances. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our fandango.
Leonard written by nick grinde, zelda sears, john meehan starring norma shearer, chester morris, robert montgomery. She remains the only reason for watching the divorcee. The divorcee was about a couple named jerry shearer and ted morris who decided to get married after a weekend of partying with their. The divorcee is a 1930 american precode drama film written by nick grinde, john meehan. It was commonplace in the first years of the academy awards for the five acting slots for best actor and best actress to consist of only three nominees, two of whom received nods for more than one performance. The divorcee is a 1930 american precode drama film written by nick grinde, john meehan, and zelda sears, based on the novel exwife by ursula parrott. Would movie goers recommend the divorcee to friends. An adwoman norma shearer learns of her husbands chester morris fling and pays him back in kind. Jerry and ted are young, in love, and part of the new york incrowd. The divorcee 1930 after three years of marriage, ted chester morris has an affair that threatens to destroy his happiness with wife jerry norma shearer, as she returns the favor by pursuing. Its a 1930 movie no doubt, coming only a few years after the first parttalkie and less than that after the first alltalking picture. Leonard was nominated for an academy award, as was the film itself, and shearer won her only oscar for her performance as a sexually emancipated woman. Hill one of the earliest and most realistic of melodramatic prison pictures, used by many subsequent dramatic prison films as a model.
The divorcee, the 1930 romantic melodrama which starred norma shearer and three, count em, three leading men. With norma shearer, robert montgomery, chester morris, conrad nagel. It starred wallace beery as condemned prison inmate machine gun butch schmidt, a murderous cellblock leader. Norma shearer deserved the oscar she won for best actress for this film in 1930.
Norma shearer was nominated for both their own desire 1929 and the divorcee 1930, winning the statuette for the latter. The divorcee 1930 a social drama, the divorcee examines temptation and the double standards set for men and women. Plot summary after three years of marriage, ted chester morris has an affair that threatens to destroy his happiness with wife jerry norma shearer, as she returns the favor by pursuing don. The divorcee 1930 i have been watching a number of older movies the past few weeks.
This is in direct contrast to the first year of the awards, in which janet gaynor received the best actress award for all three of her nominated performances. It picks up quite a bit after jerry learns of her husbands affair. The film was also nominated for best picture, and won best actress for its star norma shearer. Were your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie posters. Its one of those movies about the affluent though at least most of the people in this movie actually have jobs, which automatically. Norma shearer as jerry martin chester morris as ted martin conrad nagel as paul robert montgomery as don helen johnson as dorothy florence eldridge as helen baldwin helene millard as mary robert elliott as bill baldwin mary doran as janice meredith tyler brooke as hank zelda sears as hannah george. Leonard on allmovie recently the divorcee, in general, and norma. Leonards first talkie with shearer, the divorcee 1930, was their most successful collaboration.
The story is very simple, but it presents some layers into the subjects of marriage and sex equality. In a free soul, she stars as a socialite whose affair with mobster clark gable raises the ire of his lawyer and her father, played by lionel barrymore who won the best actor oscar for. The divorcee full movie watch online the divorcee full english full movie the divorcee full full movie, the divorcee full full movie streaming the divorcee full movie engsub watch the divorcee. The gay divorcee is a 1934 american musical film directed by mark sandrich and starring fred astaire and ginger rogers. Here was sex, openly discussed and practiced, and even used as a weapon. 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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