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I Want a Divorce

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Director
  
Ralph Murphy

Music director
  
Victor Young

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Cinematography
  
Ted Tetzlaff

Country
  
United States

I Want a Divorce movie poster

Release date
  
September 20, 1940

Writer
  
Frank Butler (screenplay), Adela Rogers St. Johns (based on a story by)

Cast
  
Joan Blondell
(Geraldine Brokaw),
Dick Powell
(Alan MacNally),
Harry Davenport
(Grandpa Brokaw),
Conrad Nagel
(David Holland Sr.),
Gloria Dickson
(Wanda Holland),
Frank Fay
(Jeff Gilman)

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Tagline
  
A SLAP HAPPY COMEDY OF YOUNG LOVE!

John i want a divorce


I Want a Divorce is a 1940 Paramount film directed by Ralph Murphy. The screenplay was written by Frank Butler (based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns). The film starred then-married actors Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, who would later divorce in real life. Co-star Gloria Dickson and director Murphy were also later married to one another and divorced.

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Plot

Alan and Geraldine MacNally are a married couple, who are doubting if they did the right thing by marrying each other. Meanwhile, David and Wanda Holland are in the final stages of their divorce. It so happens Alan is the attorney who arranges their divorce. This makes him and Geraldine fall even further apart. Everything changes when Wanda commits suicide after she loses custody of her son. The MacNallys then start thinking about what is really important to them.

Cast

  • Joan Blondell – Geraldine MacNally (née Brokaw)
  • Dick Powell – Alan MacNally
  • Gloria Dickson – Wanda Holland
  • Frank Fay – Jeff Gilman
  • Jessie Ralph – Grandma Brokaw
  • Harry Davenport – Grandpa Brokaw
  • Conrad Nagel – David Holland, Sr.
  • Dorothy Burgess – Peppy Gilman
  • Sidney Blackmer – Erskine Brandon
  • Louise Beavers – Celestine
  • Mickey Kuhn – David Holland, Jr.

    • Production

    Blondell and Powell were actually married offscreen from 1936 to 1944.

    References

    I Want a Divorce Wikipedia
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    I Want a Divorce IMDbI Want a Divorce themoviedb.org


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