A Bill of Divorcement
A Bill of Divorcement

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- 65/100 based on 1,839 votes
  • Released: 1932
  • Runtime: 70 mins
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  • Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
  • Genres: Drama

After spending fifteen years in an asylum, Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. He finds that things at home are different than when he left them. His wife has divorced him and is already planning her next marriage, and his daughter has grown up throughout the years and is planning to marry as well.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in A Bill of Divorcement:

John Barrymore
Billie Burke
David Manners
Katharine Hepburn
Paul Cavanagh
Henry Stephenson

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After spending fifteen years in an asylum, Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. He finds that things at home are different than when he left them. His wife has divorced him and is already planning her next marriage, and his daughter has grown up throughout the years and is planning to marry as well.

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EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyEven in 1932, when the melodrama was made, the biological and moral issues of insanity were outdated, but Cukor's film features an original, striking turn from Katharine Hepburn in her screen debut.
CinePassion - 8/10 by Fernando F. CroceThe dramaturgy is pure 19th-century, yet Cukor gives you Barrymore and the debuting Hepburn cutting through it like a couple of long-stemmed knives
User Review - 8/10 by Justin MVery sweet and very sad. Katharine Hepburn is gorgeous in this movie.
User Review - 8/10 by Evan HKatharine Hepburn's film debut. Love this movie. She looks amazing and John Barrymore is heartbreaking.
User Review - 8/10 by Joanna NEntertainingly melodramatic tale of hereditary insanity with a bizarrely unsatisfactory ending. Young Kate is fun to watch.
User Review - 6/10 by Keenan Sfirst of many pairings of david selznick & director george cukor
User Review - 6/10 by Mackenzie SInteresante si tan solo por ver como comenzo uno de las colaboraciones mas longevas y afortunadas del cine entre George Cukor y Katharine Hepburn
User Review - 6/10 by Cindy II have heard for eons about how great an actor John Barrymore was, and I expected some good but overblown silent acting style from him. How wrong I was! He in reality had a naturalistic acting style that would hold up just as good today. This film is about a man who regains his sanity and escapes from a mental institution (after 16 years) only to find that his wife has divorced him and is about to marry again. Barrymore did a wonderful job of making you "feel his pain" at his discovery that the woman he adores loves someone else. And his body language that gave away that he wasn't completely well, was right on the mark, very much like people I have known who were treated for severe mental illness. This was also the first film of 24-year-old Katherine Hepburn. She plays the daughter who was born after the man's commitment to the asylum. All her mannerisms are already developed, and she's beginning to show the talent to come. She claimed later to have learned a great deal about acting from Barrymore during this film. Billie Burke, better known as Glinda in the Wizard of Oz, plays dramatic here as the wife. This really made me want to see more of Barrymore, but also made me wonder what Drew Barrymore could do if someone really gave her a chance.
User Review - 6/10 by Rob LThis feature with Katharine Hepburn and John Barrymore hasn't aged too well, but it was Hepburn's first teaming with her best director George Cukor, and gained her prominent attention.
User Review - 6/10 by Roy CThough somewhat dated and hoary today, Bill of Divorcement is somewhat fun, as this was Katherine Hepburn's first picture, and yes, it's fun stems from it being dated and hoary, Billie Burke and Hepburn compete for the "I'm-So-Rich-Eastern-United-States" title with their diction (see Singin' In The Rain for a good explanation of this ("I cont let you go!"). The whole "You're-insane-because-your-father-is" is laughable, but it makes for good moody shots I suppose.

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