The Divorcee

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iris S 12/06/2024 This was a great romantic/drama movie. You can live the late 1920s through this film. Norma Sheer was classy and sexy. See more 12/13/2021 Norma Shearer won the Best Actress Oscar. The topic was rather risque at the time and shows a sort of love triangle for the first time in film. See more william d @acsdoug 10/14/2020 Fair to middling melodrama. The most interesting thing is the subject matter. Not many movies from the '30s deal with adultery, and since The Divorcee is Pre-Code it talks about adultery pretty extensively, albeit somewhat obliquely. See more Jared D 09/02/2020 A very dated tale of the sexual double standard where the double standard wins in the end. Shearer had some memorable scenes as a more "liberated woman" once she is divorced. Despite bring a somewhat risque pre-code film, the filmmakers couldn't bring themselves to close the film with anything but a thrown together sop to the wounded husband's vanity. See more 08/10/2020 Keep in mind, the movie should be watched in its historical context. For 1930, it was a very risquee plot, testing the limits of social mores of the time. The idea of a women being perceived as a sexual equal to a man was way beyond its time. Norma Shearer did such a great job of the role, struggling between her self-perception as a modern, liberal-minded woman and her feelings of jealousy and betrayal, like a "typical" housewife, which she never thought she was. The line "it didn't mean anything" characterizes the irony of the film -- it actually meant everything and destroyed the lives of those who thought it didn't. The film reinforces the idea of the importance of the sanctity of marriage and fidelity in a monogomous relationship - a concept that may seem antiquated in our times, but something that was being tested in the 1920s and 1930s. See more steve d 07/23/2020 The story is not much but the acting is strong. See more Read all reviews

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