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Budget $300,000
Running Time
1 hour, 10 minutes
Country USA
Studio RKO Pictures
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Other Titles
• A Bill of Divorcement
• Never to Love
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Genre: Drama, Tear Jerker, Law, Doctor, Christmas, Melodrama, Mental Illness
Plot: Katharine Hepburn makes a powerful screen debut in A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT as the young Sydney Fairfield, a woman whose world is transformed when a stranger arrives in her life. John Barrymore gives a stunning, nuanced performance as her father, Hilary Fairfield, who, confined for years in a mental institution, finally escapes and returns to his wife and daughter. Arriving just after his wife has filed for divorce, Hilary upsets the balance established in his absence yet also lays the groundwork for an emotional drama in which the renewal of the father-daughter bond drives the story. Barrymore is at his finest, and Hepburn's onscreen magnetism rendered her an instant sensation; she would continue to work with director Cukor in many of his subsequent films. A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT is based on the play by Clemence Dane, which draws from Henrik Ibsen’s GHOSTS.
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George Cukor
Gone with the Wind, My Fair Lady, The Philadelphia Story |
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 | John Barrymore
Grand Hotel, Dinner at Eight, That's Entertainment, Part II | Billie Burke
The Wizard of Oz, Father of the Bride, Dinner at Eight | | Paul Cavanagh
House of Wax, Tarzan and His Mate, The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel | | | |
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| Max Steiner
Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Arsenic and Old Lace |
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