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	Divorcons by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac
Starring	Billie Burke
Cinematography	Hal Young
Production company	Famous Players-Lasky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	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 Divorcons 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

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.^[5]

References

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

External links

Let's Get a Divorce at the Internet Movie Database
AllMovie.com
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Anita Loos

Novels

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady. (1926)
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928)

Plays

Happy Birthday (1946)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
Gigi (1951)
Chéri (1959)

Film

Writer	My Baby (1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The New York Hat (1912) The Mistake (1913) The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913) Billy's Rival (1914) The Girl in the Shack (1914) The Hunchback (1914) Stranded (1916/I) His Picture in the Papers (1916) The Children Pay (1916) A Daughter of the Poor (1917) Reaching for the Moon (1917) Wild and Woolly (1917) Let's Get a Divorce (1918) The Isle of Conquest (1919) A Virtuous Vamp (1919) Mama's Affair (1921) The Struggle (1931) Red-Headed Woman (1932) The Barbarian (1933) San Francisco (1936) They Met in Bombay (1941) Producers' Showcase "Happy Birthday" (1956)

Screenplay	Red Hot Romance (1922) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Hold Your Man (1933) The Girl from Missouri (1934; original) Riffraff (1936) Saratoga (1937) The Women (1939) Susan and God (1940) Blossoms in the Dust (1941) When Ladies Meet (1941) I Married an Angel (1942)

Story	Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914) American Aristocracy (1916) Woman's Place (1921) Midnight Mary (1933) Saratoga (1937)

Novel	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

Titles	The Americano (1916) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)

Scenario	The Sisters (1914/I) The Americano (1916) The Lost House (1915)

Other	Macbeth (1916; intertitles) The Branded Woman (1920; adaptation) Red Hot Romance (1922; executive producer) Blondie of the Follies (1932; dialogue) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953; play)

Uncredited	The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) Another Thin Man (1939) Babes in Arms (1939) Strange Cargo (1940) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

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