This week on "Film Friday," I bring you a steamy little tale of divorce and infidelity that gave Miss Norma Shearer her only Academy Award for Best Actress. Theatrical release poster Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, The Divorcee (1930) tells the story of Jerry Bernard (Norma Shearer) and Ted Martin (Chester Morris), a young couple blissfully in love, much to the chagrin of their New York socialite friends, including Paul ( Conrad) and Don (Robert Montgomery) . Paul, who is in love with Jerry, is so distraught when the two announce their engagement that he gets drunk and ends up cr ashing his car, permanently disf iguring their friend Dorothy (Helen Johnson). Ou t of pit y, Pa ul marries Dorothy in her hospital bed, while Jerry and Ted spen d the next three years happily married. On the night of their third weddi ng anniversar y , however, Jerry discovers that Ted has had an aff a ir with a woman na med Janice Me redith ( Mary Doran). After Jerry confronts T...
