Winifred Ashton CBE, better known by the pseudonym Clemence Dane, was an English novelist and playwright.
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Katharine Cornell and Allan Pollock in the original Broadway production of A Bill of Divorcement (1921)
Katharine Cornell as Mary Fitton in the Broadway production of Will Shakespeare (1923)
A Bill of Divorcement (1932 film)
A Bill of Divorcement is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn in her film debut. It is based on the 1921 British play of the same name, written by Clemence Dane as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman to divorce her husband. It was the second screen adaptation of the play; the first was a 1922 British silent film also titled A Bill of Divorcement. The film was made again in 1940 by RKO Pictures.
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Katharine Hepburn and David Manners in A Bill of Divorcement
Katharine Hepburn and David Manners in A Bill of Divorcement