"A new angle on marriage and divorce! How to win back a wandering husband!-The year's finest talkie!" 11 July 1930 Drama, Comedy 79 mins
A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pursuing another woman. Unbeknownst to him, she is the same ex-wife he'd neglected, now transformed into a fashionable socialite.
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Norma Shearer as Kitty Brown
Rod La Rocque as Bob Brown
Marie Dressler as Mrs. Bouccicault
Gilbert Emery as Townley
Hedda Hopper as Madge Livingston
Raymond Hackett as Bruce
Sally Eilers as Diane
Tyrell Davis as Wallace
Wilfred Noy as Whitman - 1st Butler
William H. O'Brien as Struthers - 2nd Butler (as William O'Brien)
Sybil Grove as Perkins - the Maid
Freddie Burke Frederick as Mrs. McIntyre (uncredited)
Mary Gordon as Mrs. McIntyre (uncredited)
Marilyn Harris as The Brown's Little Girl (uncredited)
Helene Millard as Helen Hibbard (uncredited)
Dickie Moore as Bobby Brown - 5 Years Old (uncredited)
Robert Z. Leonard Director
Rachel Crothers Theatre Play
Frances Marion Writer
Frances Marion Dialogue
Lucille Newmark Dialogue
Basil Wrangell Editor
Cedric Gibbons Art Direction
Adrian Costume Design
Douglas Shearer Sound Director
Norbert Brodine Director of Photography
Irving Thalberg Producer
United States 11 July 1930
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