Divorce (1945 film)

Divorce
Directed byWilliam Nigh
Written bySidney Sutherland (story and screenplay)
Harvey Gates (screenplay)
Produced byJeffrey Bernerd
Kay Francis
Trem Carr
StarringKay Francis
Bruce Cabot
Helen Mack
CinematographyHarry Neumann
Edited byRichard C. Currier
Music byEdward J. Kay
Production
company
Distributed byMonogram Pictures
Release date
  • August 18, 1945 (1945-08-18)
Running time
71 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Divorce is a 1945 American drama film directed by William Nigh and produced and distributed by Monogram Pictures. It stars Kay Francis, Bruce Cabot, and Helen Mack and follows the story of a woman who returns to her hometown after multiple divorces and becomes re-involved with a married childhood boyfriend.

Plot summary

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Diane, a woman who has been married and divorced five times, returns to her small hometown where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of Bob, her childhood boyfriend.

Cast

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Reception

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One New York State paper found it a “motion picture of unusual excellence, judged from any standpoint,” and continued: “Miss Francis, as the much-married divorcee of the story, is a poised, ruthless woman of the world and displays all the seductive artistry which long ago established her as a star of the first rank. Bruce Cabot is equally fine as a happily married man, a returned officer of the present war, who succumbs to the wiles of the predatory Miss Francis, and leaves his family for her. Helen Mack is outstanding as the deserted wife who fights for her rights, and others in the cast who do especially good work are Jerome Cowan, Craig Reynolds, Ruth Lee, Jean Fenwick, Mary Gordon, Jonathan Hale and Addison Richards, as well as two precocious child actors, Larry Olsen and Johnny Calkins.”[1]

References

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  1. ^ “’Divorce’ Drama of Timely Family Problem.” Cohoes [NY] American, 7 November 1945.
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