I Want a Divorce
Cast & Crew
Ralph Murphy
Joan Blondell
Dick Powell
Gloria Dickson
Frank Fay
Jessie Ralph
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Synopsis
Wanda Holland's social life interferes so much with her marriage that her husband David divorces her and takes custody of their son Davey for a month. After the divorce, Wanda takes an apartment with her sister, Geraldine "Jerry" Brokaw, who abhors her sister's wastrel life. While escaping from Wanda's party friends one night, Jerry takes a drive and meets novice attorney Alan MacNally, and the two fall in love and marry. Despite Jerry's objections, Alan accepts a lucrative job with Erskine Brandon, the attorney who handled her sister's divorce. Although Alan becomes highly successful, his work causes their marriage to suffer. When Alan stands Jerry up on her birthday, she offers him an ultimatum: either give up being a divorce lawyer, or give her up. Alan choses his work over Jerry, and they separate. One month later, Wanda learns that David is remarrying, and out of despair for her lost love, she commits suicide. Face to face at the scene of the tragedy, Jerry and Alan realize that they can never part again, and Alan quits divorce law to take a job in the domestic relations court, working to keep couples together.
Director
Ralph Murphy
Cast
Joan Blondell
Dick Powell
Gloria Dickson
Frank Fay
Jessie Ralph
Harry Davenport
Conrad Nagel
Dorothy Burgess
Sidney Blackmer
Mickey Kuhn
Louise Beavers
Brandon Tynan
Paul Stanton
Edmund Elton
George P. Huntley
Herbert Rawlinson
Natalie Moorhead
George Meader
Charles Mcavoy
Roscoe Ates
Elizabeth Valentine
Byron Foulger
Isabel Withers
Edward Earle
Ed Stanley
Frank Austin
Harry Hayden
Lenita Lane
Pat West
Fred Toones
Frank Wayne
John Kelly
Emma Tansey
Edna Bennett
Ruth Cherrington
Don Brodie
John Hartley
Donnie Kerr
Adele Horner
Virginia Mcmullen
Norma Nelson
Jean Phillips
Betty Mclaughlin
James Seay
Eva Puig
Paco Moreno
Richard Clarke
Earle Dewey
Archie Twitchell
Frances Morris
Crew
George Arthur
Frank Butler
Hans Dreier
Ernst Fegte
Hugo Grenzbach
Earl Hayman
Edith Head
Don Johnson
Roy Kreuger
S. K. Lauren
William Lebaron
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Leroy Stone
George Templeton
Ted Tetzlaff
Victor Young
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Although an unidentified contemporary source claims that the picture was based on a radio serial, no information about its production has been found. According to reviews, this was Dick Powell's first assignment in a non-singing role. It was also his first film after leaving Warner Bros. as a contract player. He and Joan Blondell were married at the time this picture was produced.
