Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2
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Release Date: Apr 19, 1930 Wide
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Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on Ex-Wife, a 1929 Ursula Parrott novel. Shearer is Jerry, a socialite who marries handsome Ted (Chester Morris) after a whirlwind courtship. But Ted is not exactly the faithful type and after three years of what she in her naïveté considered marital bliss, Jerry learns of his affair with Janice (Mary Doran). "It meant nothing," Ted assures her but Jerry is devastated and decides
Unrated, 1 hr. 23 min.
Apr 19, 1930 Wide
Mar 4, 2008
All Critics (7) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
Hysterical early talkie melodrama.
It's doubtful that this melodrama, in which Norma Shearer challenges society's double standards about sexual mores by flirting with several men, could have been made after 1934 due to strictures of the Production Code.
Mesmo que supostamente denuncie o machismo da época, o próprio filme é machista, moralista e repleto de personagens desprezíveis, sendo verdadeiramente repugnante.
Refreshingly excited about female sexuality for a Hollywood movie, though pretty tame stuff all in all.
Surpisingly strong, effective early talkie from usually tepid MGM
[Shearer] certainly deserved her Oscar for this one.
This movie is okay, it's just like a lot of other movies with similar plots about divorced couples, and the predictable happy ending, of course. Not bad, but not good either.
November 16, 2010Super Reviewer
Creaky antique, considering the difference in acting styles between now and then Shearer is good not great and its interesting to see the frankness which the subject is dealt with in this pre-code drama but its hard to understand her decision since her husband is a infantile louse.
November 2, 2008
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