“I WANT A DIVORCE”
Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, man and wife in real life, play man and wife together on the screen in Paramount’s “ I Want a Divorce,” the bright comedy drama of marital differences which opens at the Regent Theatre to-day. The story by Adela Rogers St. John deals with the affairs of six adults, some related and all acquainted, who find that matrimony is not as easy as they thought. It begin? with the divorce of one couple consequences of which are unhappiness and suicide for the wife, remarriage for the husband. Later on a second couple take their troubles to the court, which gives the husband his freedom. But the story is more concerned with another couple Joan Blondell and Dick Powell. In bright and breezy fashion all the joys of life and domesticity are brought to the screen in witty • fashion and also difficulties which arise from mcompatability of temperament. The two stars give excellent performances which hold one’s interest throughout. A first, half of unusual interest includes the latest “ March of Time," “ General Smuts at the Front.” a sportlight. and a colour cartoon.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24632, 13 June 1941, Page 3
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