I Want a Divorce (1940)
A SLAP HAPPY COMEDY OF YOUNG LOVE!
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
- Date of release
- 1940-09-20
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Ralph Murphy
Casting
- Joan Blondell — Geraldine Brokaw
- Dick Powell — Alan MacNally
- Harry Davenport — Grandpa Brokaw
- Conrad Nagel — David Holland Sr.
- Gloria Dickson — Wanda Holland
- Frank Fay — Jeff Gilman
- Louise Beavers — Celestine
- Jessie Ralph — Grandma Brokaw
- Dorothy Burgess — Peppy Gilman
- Sidney Blackmer — Erskine Brandon
- Mickey Kuhn — David Holland Jr.
- Harry Hayden — Buell
Interesting facts
I Want a Divorce is a 1940 Paramount film directed by Ralph Murphy. The screenplay was written by Frank Butler. The film starred then-married actors Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, who would later divorce in real life. Co-star Gloria Dickson and director Murphy were also later married to one another and divorced.
Production
Blondell and Powell were actually married offscreen from 1936 to 1944.
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