Children of Divorce [Blu-ray]

Director: Josef von Sternberg, Frank Lloyd Josef von Sternberg

Overview

Kitty Flanders (Yvonne Pelletier), Jean Waddington and Ted Larrabee (Don Marion) are all "children of divorce" -- the two girls are left in a convent school by their mothers and Ted's upbringing is sketchy at best. When the three of them grow up, Ted (now played by Gary Cooper) falls deeply in love with Jean (the beautiful Esther Ralston). Kitty (Clara Bow) loves Vico, an impoverished prince (Einar Hansen), but she refuses to marry him because her mother, Katherine (Hedda Hopper), has drilled into her the necessity of marrying for money. So Kitty sets her sights on the wealthy Ted, even though Jean is her friend. After a night of drunken revelry, Ted wakes up to find he and Kitty are married. Even though he is desperately unhappy, Jean doesn't want their parents' mistake repeated and refuses to allow him to seek a divorce so that he can marry her. A few years later, things have gotten much worse for Kitty and Ted. Although they have a baby, it does nothing for the marriage and Ted does everything he can to avoid his unwanted wife. Then Kitty finds out that, for religious reasons, Vico can never marry a divorced woman. Since she can see no other way out, she poisons herself so that Ted and Jean can be together.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/25/2021
UPC:	0810072542687
Original Release:	1927
Rating:	NR
Source:	Flicker Alley
Language:	English
Time:	1:11:00
Sales rank:	25,699

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Margaret Campbell	Mousie
Don Marion	Little Ted
Yvonne Pelletier	Little Kitty
Einar Hansen	Prince Ludovico de Sfax
Edward Martindel	Tom Larrabee
Percy Williams	Manning
Julia Swayne Gordon	Princess De Sfax
Gary Cooper	Ted Larrabee
Esther Ralston	Jean Waddington
Joyce Coad	Mother Superior
Tom Ricketts	The Secretary
Clara Bow	Kitty Flanders
Hedda Hopper	Katherine Flanders
Iris Stuart	Princess de Sfax
Norman Trevor	Duke de Gondreville
Albert Gran	Mr. Seymour

Technical Credits

Louis D. Lighton

Hope Loring

Josef von Sternberg	Director
Frank Lloyd	Director
Adolph Zukor	Producer
E. Lloyd Sheldon	Producer
Jesse Lasky	Producer
Louis D. Lighton	Screenwriter
Hope Loring	Screenwriter