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July 7, 2022

A Shockingly Relevant Jazz-Age Tale of Sexual Revolution, and Its Portrait of Jews

Ex-Wife and The Divorcee.

First published in 1929, Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife was a major commercial success, which MGM quickly adopted as the film The Divorcee. Its narrator and protagonist, Patricia, is a young woman who finds out—not unlike many young people today—that the revolt against traditional morality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be:

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