Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues On the thirties had a lot of productions like that maybe for transition over Silent to talkies movies,they grasping the opportunity to offer more dialogues which weren't able on silent movies,but somehow it were enough as can proves this picture,there's no soul,just a silly drama,very usual....Just Norma Shearer is worthy to see,all cast is moving around her,Morris is a UGLY actor with a flattened nose....Resume:First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6

JohnHowardReid Produced and directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Copyright 23 April 1930 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. New York opening at the Capitol, 9 May 1930. U.S. release: 19 April 1930. 9 reels. 7,533 feet. 83½ minutes.SYNOPSIS: Wife revenges herself for her husband's philandering by having an affair herself.NOTES: Academy Award, Best Actress, Norma Shearer (defeating her own performance in Their Own Desire, as well as Greta Garbo in both Romance and Anna Christie, Nancy Carroll in The Devil's Holiday, Ruth Chatterton in Sarah and Son, and Gloria Swanson in The Trespasser).Also nominated for Best Picture (All Quiet on the Western Front was the winner), Best Directing (Lewis Milestone won for All Quiet on the Western Front), Best Writing (Frances Marion won for The Big House).Number eight in the 1930 Film Daily poll of U.S. film critics. Negative cost was $341,000. Shooting took 22 days. Net domestic rentals amounted to a tidy $676,000, leaving MGM $335,000 in the black — with overseas rentals still to come!COMMENT: Norma Shearer, did she deserve to win an Academy Award for the year's Best Actress? By the standards prevailing in 1930, maybe. In a 2017 judgment, definitely not. It's a staged performance, compounded of nine-tenths artifice and one-tenth genuine feeling or sympathy for the character.It's true, that Norma does improve as the film progresses, but even at her best, she nearly always comes across as the actress, rarely as the character. Her obviously contrived approach is way out of touch not only with today's methods, but even with most of the other players in the movie. Actually, it's Robert Montgomery who comes over most convincingly of all. What's more you can actually sense the seducer ticking away behind all the shallow party tricks. That's acting indeed! I also liked Chester Morris, whose portrayal is generally under- rated. He is a thick head certainly, but that's exactly what the character is. He makes the scene in which he spurns Shearer so realistic that you actually feel for her. This flow of audience sympathy by default to Jerry is entirely due to Morris' acting, not Shearer's.After a great start, in which he does the drunk act most realistically, Conrad Nagel settles down into his conventional "other man" impersonation, but we must commend Judith Wood who plays the unfortunate Dorothy, Tyler Brooke as the inveterate party clown, and especially slinky Mary Doran who makes her Janice-Doesn't-Mean- a- Thing a person to remember.Also worthy of note is screenwriter Zelda Sears who has given herself the part of Hannah, the querulous maid. Being actually on the set throughout, at Robert Z. Leonard's invitation, she actually contributed more to the script, especially the dialogue, than the credits seem to indicate. When not wanted on the set itself, she sat right next to Leonard from go to whoa!Lavishly produced, skillfully edited and directed with considerable expertise, "The Divorcée" only shows its age in a rather noisy Western Electric Noiseless Recording soundtrack. Said noiseless track hisses, splutters and crackles rather disconcertingly throughout the action, but especially in many moments of supposedly pure silence.

ccthemovieman-1 This is a very dated soap opera but I wanted to see it because I often like classic films and I've never actually sat through one that starred Norma Shearer.Was Norma Shearer a sexy woman? I found her just okay, nothing special. At times she's attractive; other times not so. She giggles in here a lot and - like Jean Harlow - likes slinky dresses.The dialog in most "talkies" up until the later 1930s is very dated, especially in the "Pre-Code Era." Actually, I find it fun to hear these odd expressions of the day, but all the "darling" this and "darling" that get a little nauseating after a short time and the corny lines, hysterical women, sexist men, etc., wear thin fast.In essence, this was a woman's movie with the message that it's NOT all right for a man to cheat on her husband but bad if a woman does. I buy that. As you all know, it's bad if either does! That's the only problem. This idiot husband, played by Chester Morris, makes an absolute ton of stupid remarks after admitting he had an affair with "Janice" and that "it doesn't mean a thing."However, that same night after he shuffles off to Buffalo for a work assignment, she hits the sack (not shown) with a buddy. Two wrongs make a right? Of course not, but Shearer's character "Jerry" and her response to the whole thing is interesting to watch. And, yes, she slowly sees the error of her ways and "repents" at the end. That ending may be predictable, but it will still draw a tear or two to your eyes.The film gets really sudsy the last half, especially in the last hour. I thought, "Wow, this would play well on the Lifetime Network - what a women's soaper." So, if you like that sort of thing - nothing but men and women in and out of all kinds of relationships and talking about them - then this film, dated or not, is for you.

wes-connors Norma Shearer (as Jerry Martin) tests the freedom acceptable for men, but not permissible for women - the sexual "Double Standard". As the film opens, Ms. Shearer is an happily married woman. However, husband Chester Morris (as Ted Martin) gets "plastered", and succumbs to the advances of a sexually aggressive woman… at least, that's what is discernible from the after-the-fact behavior of the adulterous duo, as Shearer catches them in a light embrace. Disillusioned, Shearer turns the tables by having a "one night stand" of her own - with one of the soon-to-be divorced couple's pals.In a film themed like Greta Garbo's recent "The Single Standard" (1929), MGM takes another shot at the sexual "Double Standard". The results are similar, but not the same. Shearer's winning performance is bold, fascinating, and fun to watch; she elevates the character far above the material. The film's problem is that it pulls its punches with a disappointing ending, extinguishing a truly interesting story. Yet, somehow, Shearer makes the character ring true. It's a strong performance, which manages to rise above the film's abandonment of its thesis.Director Robert Z. Leonard, writer John Meehan, and a fine supporting cast are a great help. Robert Montgomery's performance (as Don) is a standout. And, Conrad Nagel (as Paul) is another Shearer castoff, who has a potable problem; he has a harrowing car crash near the film's opening. A lot of alcohol is consumed in this movie! "The Divorcée" is a flawed, but worthwhile film. ******* The Divorcée (4/19/30) Robert Z. Leonard ~ Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Robert Montgomery, Conrad Nagel