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A bill of divorcement

On the day that Margaret Fairfield is to re-marry, her ex-husband Hillary, shell-shocked during World War One, escapes from and insane asylum and returns to his home.

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  • "On the day that Margaret Fairfield is to re-marry, her ex-husband Hillary, shell-shocked during World War One, escapes from and insane asylum and returns to his home."@en
  • "A middle-aged man, released from a mental institution, comes home and meets his strong-willed daughter."@en
  • "Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc., Troy, Missouri, U.S.A. Feature film set in an English country house in the late 1920s, in which the young Katherine Hepburn's father escapes from a private asylum and returns home the day before his wife is due to get a divorce on the grounds of her husband's prolonged mental unfitness. The aftermath of shell-shock, 'hereditary mental taint' and the eugenic regulation of marriage and procreation all figure prominently in this melodrama, which was Katherine Hepburn's screen debut."
  • "A witty romantic comedy about the disruption caused when a young woman's father returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum."@en
  • "Hillary Fairfield (Barrymore), who was shell-shocked during World War I, escapes from a mental asylum on the very day that his ex-wife is to remarry. When he returns home, he is jolted by a meeting with his daughter Sydney (Hepburn), who comes to realize she may have inherited the streak of insanity from her father."
  • "Hillary Fairfield (Barrymore), who was shell-shocked during World War I, escapes from a mental asylum on the very day that his ex-wife is to remarry. When he returns home, he is jolted by a meeting with his daughter Sydney (Hepburn), who comes to realize she may have inherited the streak of insanity from her father."@en

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  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Romantic comedy films"@en
  • "Comedy films"@en
  • "Melodrama"@en
  • "Plays"@en
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Videocassettes"
  • "Feature films"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Features"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "fiction dramatique (fiction)"

http://schema.org/name

  • "Bill of divorcement (Film)"
  • "A bill of divorcement"
  • "A bill of divorcement"@en
  • "A Bill of divorcement"
  • "Bill of divorcement"@en
  • "A Bill of divorcement Héritage"
  • "Bill of divorcement (Motion picture : 1932)"