A Bill of Divorcement
A Bill of Divorcement ★★½ 1932
Hepburn's screen debut, as the daughter of a shellshocked WWI vet, who requires her care after her mother decides to divorce him. Creaky early talker. 76m/B VHS . John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke, Henry Stephenson, David Manners, Paul Cavanagh, Elizabeth Patterson; D: George Cukor; M: Max Steiner.
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DIVORCE (Heb. גֵּרוּשִׁין), the formal dissolution of the marriage bond.
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Payment that a family court may order one person in a couple to make to the other person when that couple separates or divorces.
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