A Bill of Divorcement | JOHN BARRYMORE | Classic Drama Movie | English

[@errolpletcher9186]

David Manners was handsome as hell. Manners quit acting in 1936 and became a novelist and a philosophist. He spent the next 30 years living with his boyfriend, (a playwright) Frederic William Mercer, who died in 1978. Manners died in 1998 at the age of 98. Impressive!

[@SHIRLEYGiffordCashmanMS]

I agree, but please avoid curse words.

[@90FF1]

Outstanding! Hepburn retained her beauty for her entire life. Thank you for bringing this masterpiece to You Tube.

[@stephaniestanley8041]

Hepburn in her first big role, breathtaking and beautiful. As Cukor said when interviewed about this film, no one ever saw anything like her. Heartbreaking to watch, but in the end I understood the sacrifice & the emotion I felt.

[@rufust.firefly4890]

It was her debut.

[@jeanwilliquet4035]

It's harrowing. Each time I see J.B I love him more. Young Hepburn fantastic.

[@littleredhairedgirlsteph3922]

I've never seen Billie Burke with her doll face and sweet little voice play a serious role.

[@SuziQ.]

She’s always a delight.

[@lemorab1]

Thank you so much for posting this! I saw it over 50 years ago at the UCLA Pacific Film Archive and have looked for it for years!

[@DelvingEye]

That opening scene of young lovelies and gentlemen dancing is heaven. Oh, how I wish life were like that today! Sadly, young people are not taught and do not know how to dance ballroom style. In my day, girls and boys went to dancing class after school. We all wore white gloves. That was back when there were only 2 sexes and none of the current woke nonsense.

[@Laura-tp8wz]

Very true!

[@valkyriesardo278]

White gloves and dancing class were only for the wealthy. The poor had it harder then than now. It is easy to look back on the past with romantic nostalgia and forget life was not like that for most.

[@roxannaromero5462]

you had to bring that last bit into it. 🙄

[@faysolreza5535]

Old man yells at sky

[@0Hannah07]

What are u talking about? This movie was made in 1932 during the Great Depression the majority of people didn't wear gloves nor had ball room dance classes after school they were literally starving. Many families would set up tents outside because they lost their house. This is nothing but a movie it doesn't reflect the actual 30s educate yourself please.

[@deborahrigby5428]

Billie Burke, “Glenda” from the Wizard of Oz-that voice❤I kept skipping this film over, and today decided to view it-what a 💎 gem❣️Thank you for uploading and sharing with us lovers of classics!

[@scotnick59]

Glinda in OZ was Billie's favorite movie role; she looked youthful for 54!

[@SuziQ.]

@@scotnick59, As a child, she looked so young to me, even younger than my mother, who was in her early thirties at the time. I love her in the Topper films.

[@BAM-jc7uy]

as elementary kids we grew up with elizabeth patterson not only as a background character actress, but especially in the I LOve Lucy series.

[@lindavalentin5582]

Barrymore is MARVELOUS ❤as usual Lovely to see Hepburn! She’s an AMAZING actress♥️

[@LINDA-jy3ov]

It's A Great But A Very Heartbreaking 🎥 Film Everyone is Great Espeçally HEPBURN And BARRYMORE! EVERYONE IS WONDERFUL I LIKE THE WAY IT ENDED FATHER AND DAUGHTER REUNITED .

[@hanagloriaedelblum5693]

Great movie! Thanks for downloading. Besides the stellar cast, the story line reflected the attitudes and subsequent understanding of PTSD then, a leftover from European backyard sheds where "lunatic" family members were sometimes chained. We have come a long way in compassion for one another. It's too bad Sidney didn't marry her lover and have lots of children! I loved the movie. Beautiful sets and costumes too. Oddly enough, I think taking ultimate responsibility for our actions is the theme in this movie. The resolution was it's flaw imo.

[@eddy8828]

Nice to see you cared so much to comment from the heart. 👍

[@stephaniestanley8041]

Totally agree 💯

[@carlfrano6384]

This was a wonderful film. But to see Billie Burke portray a serious character for an entire film is unusual. I think that is what I liked best about "A Bill of Divorcement."

[@rjmcallister1888-l3p]

Toward the latter years of his greatest appeal, The Great Profile was prolific in making movies at various studios. Katharine Hepburn provides support in this film, months away from her breakthrough in "Morning Glory". Billie Burke and David Manners were also established stars borrowed for the movie.

[@catmother4214]

Thank you for this! I never saw it so will be watching it tonight. What a cast !!! ♥️🎥♥️🎥♥️🎥♥️🎥♥️🎥♥️🎥♥️🎥♥️🎥

[@maryperkins5867]

I always loved billy Burke

[@brendano5440]

This is the first serious roll that ive seen Billie Burke in ever. Thank you for the info about David Manners too.

[@muniama1]

Brings tears to my eyes... Great movie.

[@sandramacfie8011]

I found this movie absolutely spellbinding. Why? Because Barrymore's portrayal of the lost and lonely soul in search of his home, very moving. All the characters were excellent.

[@hell0hkitty]

what stellar acting. most of these actors got their start on the stage. just beautiful!

[@maryhoward1338]

Great movie thank you for showing it!

[@fawaziaali6814]

This is more about mental health than divorce

[@RadioWhoPoo]

What. A. Film. Echoes of Barrie's Dear Brutus which was reverberating around the theater world years earlier

[@1LSWilliam]

Magnificence. Grand and irredeemable.

[@deerhoda7574]

Interesting movie. I really enjoyed it. Thanks

[@1LSWilliam]

The fatalities of love are so many, and their comforts so few. Alas for us all.

[@errolpletcher9186]

13:53 is a perfect example of what George Cukor meant when he said they had never seen anyone like KH. There's just something about the way she stretches out in front of the fireplace that is beautiful.

[@1LSWilliam]

Riveting. Brilliant. Pathos extraordinaire.

[@catherine59226]

Thank you! ❤️👍🏻

[@randytracy1742]

Hilary Fairfield ( John Barrymore) returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum. However, he finds things are not the way they were when he left! His wife has divorced him and is already planning her next marriage and his daughter has grown up throughout the years and is planning to marry as well! This was Ms Hepburn’s film debut! And she does it well- but Mr Barrymore and Ms Burke carry the show to its emotional conclusion! They did a remake of the movie 🍿 in 1940 with Maureen O’Hara, adolphe menjou and fay bainter in the roles played by the original actors! Great movie! 👀😮😮😮🥲🥲🥲🩷💙🩷

[@virginiastevens3782]

Great film thank you.🇬🇧😁

[@tigq1430]

"...it's against my principles to kneel down for & say I'm miserable & a sinner. I'm not miserable nor a sinner" 😘

[@mariapasos7482]

We are All born sinners. We all need Jesus Christ to forgive us & come into our hearts.

[@maryk446]

It's mind-boggling to realize that in 8 years this movie will be 100 years old.

[@lindavalentin5582]

POWERFUL MOVIE❤

[@SueLee-l9f]

The camera loved Barrymore. Even though he over-egged the acting pudding from time to time (thinking he was still in the theater) he looked so good and was wonderful for Hawks in 'Twentieth Century".

[@valkyriesardo278]

I have never understood why Barrymore had a reputation for great talent. Perhaps he was more impressive on a theater stage than on a movie screen.

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

Some of it may have been his great originality . He made some revolutionary choices when he played Hamlet. I agree with you in that he wasn’t necessarily much better than, say Olivier or Gielgood. His performance as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet with Norma Shearer was really wonderful. He captured the dark wit of the character beautifully

[@errolpletcher9186]

He honed his acting skills in the silent era so his style of emoting comes across as dated. Norma Shearer is another one whose acting never graduated from the silent pictures.

[@eliza2341]

Thank you for this touching moving. I truly enjoyed it. 🙏🏻

[@ericjackson9256]

elizabeth patterson aka mrs trumble i love lucy was very good your print is excellent

[@MaritzaAgosto-e1g]

All the actors were marvelous ✨️ 👌 🙌 👏 😍 ❤ . Good movie . 😊

[@countessdelancret2447]

Ah the Barrymores🥰

[@1LSWilliam]

No kind of love can guarantee justice.

[@gabbysch2625]

Exquisite!

[@ArtflixMovieClassics]

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[@lindamac7465]

First time watching this! Fabulous 👌 😊

[@kennypham3856]

Katherine Hepburn was 25 here! 25 years old!

[@sheenaghmcmahon9665]

Barrymore is wonderful as usual but to my mind the greatest of the Barrymores was Ethel, she was always totally convincing and without affectations. To me, Ethel was the genius of the Barrymore clan.

[@REALcatmom]

My favorite is Lionel.

[@Landon1]

David Manners looks and acts so much like Michael Fasbender. The scene at 6:50 I really noticed it.

[@maryannhurley1395]

Thank you

[@fawaziaali6814]

Drew Barrymore looks like her father indeed

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

Grandfather

[@valerief1231]

I wonder why this version excluded scenes like the grandfather clock chiming and Hillary begging for it to stop.

[@JuniusBrutus]

Great movie

[@venkatreddy392]

Unusual role for Burkee in her beginning latter she struck to comicbased roles.

[@lisashapiro5758]

These two were in Dinner at Eight ,if my movie memory is still in tact

[@REALcatmom]

John Barrymore & Billie Burke were!

[@MK-hh1vo]

Good story, horrible, sad ending! Didn't expect that, how could a parent be so utterly selfish?

[@Bitterblogger]

Hillary understood, and said so: she pitied him, and loved Gray. It would never have worked knowing that.

[@laurakibben4147]

@MK+hh1vo Only just started movie but oh believe me, they can be whatever you're speaking of portrayed here and worse. I'm only one of the surviving products of a screwed up head case of a mom and autistic father who were forced to marry upon finding themselves expecting at 15 and 17. And that was only in 64. Said mom's unwanted arrival was in '48 from a single mom born in 1918 to a father who'd divorced her mom after cheating when she was very very little. These stupid blood filled parts between our legs have caused very little but pain and suffering and mental stress and ill gotten or attempted gains and more often than not, the resulting children suffered.

[@fawaziaali6814]

To say he had children who should have never been born is wrong

[@SolenaOestriea]

And we believe whatever we see on tv as if it were real

[@laurakibben4147]

I added this movie at least two months ago and have returned to your channel to seek out several more i had removed from watch later after performing a download that seemingly didn't stick. Unfortunately, you have nothing but colorized crud now.

[@esthergonzalespolo9512]

En españooooool x fvor😮

[@songsparrow4324]

tragic!

[@Luvyourfam4ever]

This was weird 😬

[@tonyadenton9196]

You're weird !

[@SolenaOestriea]

This is the whole culture of Eu genics being legitimized by movie stars

[@cynthiajones4332]

Movie fans here's the goal. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Ephesians 2:8

[@DarlinAkaDarlene]

Must repent from our sins as well as we're all sinners no matter how good we think we are. Jesus gives joy in a new life! Praise God!

[@SueLee-l9f]

Hepburn was a cold actress and watching this only reinforced her confabulated personality.

[@2011crackers]

Miserable movie 👀

[@pianoredux7516]

Dreadful picture. Dead on arrival. A wax museum of obsolete, discredited, "actor-y" acting styles, and poorly directed to boot. Flatters none of its illustrious performers. Hepburn comes off the best. John Barrymore's film appearances are an enigma considering his exalted reputation as an actor, and his big scene here is as phony as the miscast (because her real strength was comedy of manners) Billie Burke's "reactions". I could dry my laundry on a clothesline in the spaces between line deliveries in this turkey. Barrymore's out-of-sync pantomime of playing the piano at the end is especially ludicrous (his brother Lionel, who was a real amateur pianist, could have done it much better). Max Steiner retooled the piano theme he created here in one of his later pictures for Warner Brothers, possibly City for Conquest. My only bravo is for the scenic design.

[@mikikina3013]

Beautiful movie....❤ en espanol por favor .!!!❤❤❤

[@karenhill3970]

Wish you had posted at Christmas,- time .......🤎I'll add it to my list ty