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Watch: The Divorcee 1930 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: 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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	6.7/10 Votes: 3,250
	75% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 36 Popularity: 4.042 | TMDB

Reviews:

“An overtone of sarcasm”
The dramas of the early sound era were often awkward, phoney-looking things. A lot of this has to do with the acting. Most actors were of course experienced in silent cinema, but a lot of players with stage experience had also been brought in as was deemed appropriate for “talkies”. Silent screen acting tended to be over-the-top so that meaning could be expressed without words, and stage acting also tended to be over-the-top so that meaning could be expressed to people sitting in the back row. But this excessive style didn’t really work in the more authentic setting of sound cinema. Of course, movie people weren’t stupid; they were aware of what did and didn’t work and the industry adapted quicker than is sometimes thought.

And of course, there were some actors and actresses who simply seemed to get the hang of it straight away. Norma Shearer was among a small number who survived the transition from silents to talkies with her career completely intact. One thing Shearer had was a remarkable presence – she’s able to project herself with just a simple gesture or pose, and in The Divorcée she’s often standing with her shoulders slightly forward in understated aggression. And within this context she is able to give a restrained performance, conveying a great deal but with a degree of credibility that makes the drama seem more believable. Shearer deservedly won the Academy Award for her work here. Compare her to previous year’s winner Mary Pickford in Coquette, a slice of ham from a bygone era, and you can see how much things have changed.

Let’s also take a look at the director Robert Z. Leonard. He’s not too well remembered these days because he isn’t deemed an auteur, but at the time he was among the forefront of Hollywood professionals. Two things in particular are worth noting about his style in The Divorcée. First is that he uses a lot of camera movement to really engage us in a scene (who says early sound films were static?), often using a noteworthy pan as a character appears. Secondly, he gives us an awful lot of the interplay between characters in simple wordless glances between them, for example the jealous look of Conrad Nagel when Shearer and Chester Morris announce their betrothal, or later a silent, spiteful exchange between Shearer and Mary Doran. There was a temptation for talkie directors to shoot things before the assembled actors as if for a stage play, but here Leonard is making subtle close-ups that cut across the action, and in so doing giving depth to the story outside of the dialogue.

This picture is now often classified as a “pre-code” movie for its depiction of Shearer’s promiscuity after she becomes the titular divorcée, although even by the standards of the day it’s pretty tame. However, thanks to its fluid direction and naturalistic acting, it is nevertheless a movie that seems a few steps ahead of its time, and points towards the increasingly sophisticated sound cinema of the 1930s.

Romantic Soap Opera
A vivacious and happily married young woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful. Embittered, she embarks on a brief affair of her own. Her marriage soon over, THE DIVORCEE quickly enters a downward spiral of escalating sexual promiscuity. How can she ever regain her husband & the happiness they once knew?

Norma Shearer won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in this well-acted soap opera. Running the range of emotions, she is ably backed up by Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel & Robert Montgomery as the three very different men in her life. (Montgomery exhibits the sophisticated charm which quite shortly would make him one of the biggest stars at MGM.) Zelda Sears, a top writer at the Studio, has the role of Hannah the maid – and she gets some of the best lines.

The very elastic morality of the plot shows the pre-Production Code status of the film, while, oddly, the twin beds in the bedroom of Shearer & Morris point out that not all the restrictions of the initial Hays period had completely died away.

In 1930, talkies were still in their infancy in Hollywood & audio awkwardness was common in many studio’s output. At MGM, Norma Shearer’s brother Douglas was Recording Director and his department learned their new lessons quickly. Look at the opening scene in THE DIVORCEE, set in the large living room of a mountain lodge. Notice the action & dialogue going on at various levels – with the radio playing `Singing In The Rain’ in the background – and it’s easy to see that MGM had mastered the mysteries of the microphone.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 24 min (84 min) (copyright length), 1 hr 22 min (82 min) (Turner library print) (USA)
Budget 340691
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Romance, Drama
Director Robert Z. Leonard
Writer Ursula Parrott, Nick Grinde, Zelda Sears
Actors Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.20 : 1 (sound on film version)
Camera N/A
Laboratory MGM Studio Lab, USA
Film Length 1,875 m (7 reels) (silent version) (USA) (UK), 2,295 m (9 reels) (USA) (UK)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm