I just read a posting at www.thedigitalbits.com today, and I found out that Warner will be releasing The Divorcee as a part of the upcoming installment of their Forbidden Hollywood collection. Vol. 2 is due on March 4, 2008.
shareTMC just came out with a multi CD set. With this and other pre-code movies.
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Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2
In her Academy Award-winning role, Norma Shearer plays "The Divorcee" (1930), a newspaperman's wife who leaves her husband due to his extra-marital affairs and embarks on her own series of encounters (a racy theme for its time). Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel also star. Next, Clark Gable plays a slyly charming criminal who escapes a murder charge with the help of alcoholic attorney Lionel Barrymore, only to seduce Barrymore's pleasure-seeking daughter (Shearer), in "A Free Soul" (1931). A trio of childhood girlfriends meets years later to find their lives intertwined in a web of love triangles, mobsters, alcohol, and drugs, in "Three on a Match" (1932). With Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Humphrey Bogart. "Female" (1933) stars Ruth Chatterton as a woman in charge of an automobile factory whose tough, no-nonsense business attitude is matched by the way she conducts her love life. Johnny Mack Brown co-stars. And, Barbara Stanwyck stars as a "Night Nurse" (1933) who cares for two fatherless children and uncovers a plot to kill them for their inheritance hatched by their drunken mother and her chauffeur lover (Gable). 6 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono. Three-disc set.
I got the Forbidden Hollywood 2 collection last Sunday at Target. I've wanted to see 3 on a Match for years, and I'm watching Female as I type this. I'm thrilled to own this collection, especially since I was never a huge Norma Shearer fan. I love The Women and Idiot's Delight, but it will be exciting to see The Divorcee and A Free Soul.
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