--- title: 'A Bill of Divorcement (1932)' type: 'film' director: 'George Cukor' released: '1932-09-30' runtime_minutes: 74 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-bill-of-divorcement-1932' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022685/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # A Bill of Divorcement (1932) 1932 · 74 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis A Bill of Divorcement is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn in her film debut. It is based on the 1921 British play of the same name, written by Clemence Dane as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman to divorce her husband. It was the second screen adaptation of the play; the first was a 1922 British silent film also titled A Bill of Divorcement. The film was made again in 1940 by RKO Pictures. ## Credits - **Director:** [George Cukor](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-cukor) - **Screenplay:** [Howard Estabrook](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-estabrook), [Harry Wagstaff Gribble](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-wagstaff-gribble) - **Original Music Composer:** [Max Steiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-steiner) - **Producer:** [David O. Selznick](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-o-selznick) - **Director of Photography:** [Sidney Hickox](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-hickox) ## Cast - [Billie Burke](https://cinepixo.com/people/billie-burke) - [Paul Cavanagh](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-cavanagh) - [Katharine Hepburn](https://cinepixo.com/people/katharine-hepburn) - [David Manners](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-manners) - [Henry Stephenson](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-stephenson) - [John Barrymore](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-barrymore) - [Dennis O'Keefe](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-o-keefe) - [Elizabeth Patterson](https://cinepixo.com/people/elizabeth-patterson) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-bill-of-divorcement-1932 Film facts: Wikidata (Q981189); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.