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Production
  
Famous Players-Lasky

Genres
  
Comedy, Silent film

Duration
  

Country
  
USA

Director
  
Charles Giblyn

Cast
  
Billie Burke

Distributor
  
Paramount Pictures

Language
  
Silent film (English intertitles)

Writer
  
Victorien Sardou
,
Emile de Najac
,
John Emerson
,
Anita Loos

Release date
  
April 28, 1918

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Let's Get a Divorce is a 1918 American silent comedy film starring Billie Burke and written for the screen by husband and wife team John Emerson and Anita Loos. The film was produced by the Famous Players-Lasky company and distributed through Paramount Pictures.

Contents

The film is based on the popular stage play Divorcons by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac.

Plot

As described in a film magazine, Cyprienne Marcey (Burke), who eats, dreams, and writes romance, picks out Henri (Miltern), the brother of her roommate, as the object of her affections. Following their spectacular elopement, Henri's attempt to return to writing is a jolt to her romantic temperament. Seeing in Henri's cousin Adhemar (Kaliz) the soul of romance, she asks Henri for a divorce so that she might marry Adhemar. Henri agrees, but once the clandestine aspect of her love affair with Adhemar is removed, it soon palls on her. On the night before the day set for her divorce she persuades her husband to take her to dinner and away from Adhemar. When the latter breaks into their private dining room with the police, he is denounced by Cyprienne who emphatically states that Henri, her husband, is the only man she ever loved.

Cast

  • Billie Burke as Madame Cyprienne Marcey
  • John Miltern as Henri de Prunelles
  • Pinna Nesbit as Yvonne de Prunelles
  • Armand Kaliz as Adhemar
  • Rod La Rocque as Chauffeur
  • Helen Tracy as Mother Superior
  • John Merkyl as Calvignac (credited as Wilmuth Merkyl)
  • Cesare Gravina as Head Waiter

    • Preservation status

    Let's Get a Divorce is considered to be a lost film.

    References

    Let's Get a Divorce Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Lets Get a Divorce IMDb