A Bill of Divorcement
A melancholic pre-code drama about a shell-shocked veteran's return and the emotional wreckage of lost time, centered on a fraught father-daughter reunion.
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.
Essence
Ensemble
John Barrymore
Hilary Fairfield
Billie Burke
Meg Fairfield
David Manners
Kit Humphreys
Katharine Hepburn
Sydney Fairfield
Paul Cavanagh
Gray Meredith
Henry Stephenson
Doctor Alliot
Gayle Evers
Bassett
Elizabeth Patterson
Aunt Hester Fairfield
Bramwell Fletcher
Gareth
Dick French
Party Guest
Julie Haydon
Party Guest
Dennis O'Keefe
Party Guest
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