Let's Get a Divorce

Let's Get a Divorce
Film poster
Directed by Charles Giblyn
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
Written by John Emerson (scenario)
Anita Loos (scenario)
Based on Divorçons
by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac
Starring Billie Burke
Cinematography Hal Young
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
 April 28, 1918
Running time
 50 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

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.

The film is based on the popular stage play Divorçons by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac.[1][2][3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,[4] 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

Preservation status

Let's Get a Divorce is considered to be a lost film.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Let's Get a Divorce
  2. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Let's Get a Divorce at silentera.com
  3. ↑ Several Broadway revivals of Divorcons prior to the 1918 film; IBDb.com
  4. ↑ "Reviews: Let's Get a Divorce". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 6 (21): 27. May 18, 1918.
  5. ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Let's Get a Divorce


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