The Divorcee (1930)
Director:
Robert Z. Leonard
Tagline:
« A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Talking Picture! »
Actors:
Jerry
Ted
Paul
Helen
Rating:
(4’158 votes)
(4’158 votes)
Quotes:
« Jerry Bernard Martin: I've balanced our accounts.
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« Hannah: Miss Jerry, if you don't need me anymore, I've got a date to go to the second show with the butcher.
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« Jerry Bernard Martin: Are his intentions honorable, Hannah?
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« Hannah: I'm afraid they are. He just wants to keep a good customer.
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« Jerry Bernard Martin: It's a New Year in a minute, Ted. All the world gets a new chance.
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« Theodore 'Ted' Martin: Don't kid me, Jerry. I'd give my right arm for another chance.
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« Jerry Bernard Martin: I like that right arm. How about putting it around me?
»
Runtime:84 minutes
Plots:
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York ‘in-crowd’. Jerry’s decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Distraught Paul gets drunk and wrecks his car, disfiguring young Dorothy’s face in the process. Out of pity, Paul marries Dorothy. Years later, the apparent perfect marriage of Ted and Jerry falls apart from infidelity on both sides. Inwardly unhappy, popular Jerry lives a party life while Ted sinks into a life of alcoholism. Jerry then runs into Paul, who still loves her. After spending time together with Jerry, Paul plans to divorce Dorothy. When Jerry sees Dorothy again, she has second thoughts about where her life is heading.
