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The film is about divorce but with flashbacks as to why divorce occurs.The film is about divorce but with flashbacks as to why divorce occurs.The film is about divorce but with flashbacks as to why divorce occurs.
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- TriviaDavis' 3 year-old daughter Barbara (Always called, "B.D.") makes her debut in the first of her 2 film roles, as Joyce's daughter as a young girl. (The other was the neighbor's daughter in "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?").
- GoofsWhen Joyce meets with Mr. Prescott, he is smoking a cigarette. When he moves to the front of his desk, he offers Joyce one and lights one for himself! You can actually see his first cigarette still smoking behind him.
- Quotes
Mrs. Edna Blanton: It's a man's world. They get everything out of it. I've told Fred hundreds of times, I'd never divorce him. No matter what he did, he couldn't make me divorce him. I'm his wife till death do us part - and I'm very healthy!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006)
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engrossing melodrama
Bette Davis as Joyce Ramsey in an engrossing melodrama about the split of a married couple. She is a ruthless social climber from jump, destroying her husband's partnership and friendship with his bestie, destroying the bestie at the same stroke. She is oblivious to her husband's despair at her shenanigans, but that's easy enough because he's a big pushover who only puts up a little objection before falling back into the soft world she's made for him, even if it is out of other people's dreams. This is one of Bette Davis's good ones; it's riveting just to watch and listen to her. The sever look she sports on her face throughout this flick is a dream, it's so la Davis. Plus it's hilarious to watch her play young in her 40s with that strange little body that always looks middle aged. There's a delightful scene that foreshadows An Affair to Remember where Joyce visits her old friend played by Jane Cowl on Port-au-Prince. Ms. Cowl is wonderful as an aging, moneyed, divorcee keeping a gigolo to stave off the loneliness. From scene to scene this movie is a great diversion.
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- The Story of a Divorce
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- Los Angeles International Airport - 1 World Way, Los Angeles, California, USA(night airport scenes)
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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