A Bill of Divorcement (1940 film)
| A Bill of Divorcement | |
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| Directed by | John Farrow |
| Screenplay by | Dalton Trumbo |
| Based on | play by Clemence Dane |
| Produced by | Robert Sisk |
| Starring | Maureen O'Hara Adolphe Menjou Fay Bainter |
| Cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca |
| Edited by | Harry Marker |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
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Release date |
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Running time | 74 mins |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Bill of Divorcement is a 1940 film directed by John Farrow. It was also known as Never to Love and was based on a play that was filmed in 1932 with John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn.
Plot
Hilary Fairchild (Adolphe Menjou) returns home after a long spell in a lunatic asylum. He has regained his sanity, but finds that his strong-willed daughter Sydney (Maureen O’Hara ) has grown up and is planning to marry and his wife (Fay Bainter) has divorced him.
Cast
- Maureen O'Hara as Sydney Fairchild
- Adolphe Menjou as Hilary Fairchild
- Fay Bainter as Margaret Fairchild
- Herbert Marshall as Gray Meredith
- Dame May Whitty as Hester Fairchild
- Patric Knowles as John Storm
- C. Aubrey Smith as Dr. Alliot
- Ernest Cossart as Rev. Dr. Pumphrey
- Kathryn Collier as Basset
- Lauri Beatty as Susan
Production
The film was announced in November 1939 with the lead roles allocated to Adolphe Menjou and Maureen O'Hara. O'Hara had just moved to Hollywood with Charles Laughton and appeared in The Hunchback of Notre Dama.Producer Robert Sisk and director John Farrow had made a number of films together including the popular Five Came Back (1939).[1] It was considered an "A" picture – Farrow and Sisk's first such movie at RKO.[2]
Filming started 2 December 1939.[3][4]
Reception
Box office
The film recorded a loss of $104,000.[5]
References
- ^ "SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD". New York Times. Nov 1, 1939 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Louella O. Parsons (Nov 1, 1939). The Washington Post https://search.proquest.com/docview/151106620.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Schallert, E. (Nov 18, 1939). "DRAMA". Los Angeles Times – via ProQuest.
- ^ "SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD". New York Times. Nov 23, 1939 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p148
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