| The Divorcee | |
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| Directed by | Herbert Blaché |
| Written by | June Mathis (scenario) Katharine Kavanaugh (scenario) |
| Based on | Lady Frederick 1907 play by W. Somerset Maugham |
| Produced by | Maxwell Karger |
| Starring | Ethel Barrymore E. J. Ratcliffe Holmes Herbert |
| Cinematography | George K. Hollister |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Metro Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 5 reels; 4,400 feet (approximately 68 minutes)[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Divorcee is a 1919 American society drama starring Ethel Barrymore in her last silent feature film. The film is based on a 1907 play, Lady Frederick by young Somerset Maugham, which had starred Barrymore on Broadway.[2] The play was already quite dated when this film was made, but the actress was always comfortable with this kind of soap-operish melodramatic material. Herbert Blaché directed, and June Mathis wrote the scenario based on Maugham's play. The film was produced and distributed by the Metro Pictures company.
It is believed to be a lost film.[3][4][5] The last known surviving copy was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire.
- ^ According to the reference How Movies Work by Bruce F. Kawin (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, pp. 46-47), a full 1000-foot reel of film in the silent era had a maximum running time of 15 minutes. Silent films were generally projected at a "standard" speed of 16 frames per second, much slower than the 24 frames of later sound films.
- ^ The Divorcee at the Internet Broadway Database
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20, published by The American Film Institute, c. 1988
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Divorcee". silentera.com.
- ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Divorcee