From "moviediva":
Norma Shearer finds the freedom of the New Woman illusory in this steamy Pre-Code melodrama, the first film to challenge the newly minted Production Code. Based on a notorious best seller, Ex-Wife, Shearer is horrified to discover that its okey-dokey if husband Chester Morris sleeps around, but not her.
Ex-Wife was so shocking in 1929 that it was published anonymously. Later printings revealed it was the debut novel of Ursula Parrott. She was an ex-wife herself, in between her first and second husbands (she'd have four). The novel is a Jazz Age fugue, set in an
hedonistic, edgy New York where everyone drinks, goes to first nights, drinks, goes to parties and drinks some more. Three Scotches before going out... how did they ever stay on their feet? They drink Manhattans, Martinis and Clover Clubs, a Martini with grenadine, lime juice and egg white added; sort of a salmonella cocktail.
Patricia (renamed the androgynous Jerry for the film) has married Peter; she thinks he's her true love. He's handsome, but shallow and mean. After he cheats on her, she does the same, and discovers there is, after all, no Single Standard. He hits her once in a while and shoves her through a glass French door. "Brought up under the tattered banners of 'Love Everlasting' and 'All for Purity' we have to adapt ourselves to life in the era of the one night stand." Patricia uses "sex as an anaesthetic." The men she likes she doesn't sleep with (one of them is dying of syphilis). She runs around the track at the gymnasium after work and says she's "Running through days of posing as an efficient young business woman, through nights of posing as a sophisticated young woman about town. Running from the memory of Peter, towards something or nothing, it didn't matter which." Her ex-husband is never a serious reunion candidate (although she does see him and sleep with him on occasion). And when she finally gets her divorce, "It is so silly to mind. Just an incident in the career of a Modern Woman. What the hell!" She eventually marries a pal and sets off on an around the world cruise, hoping to run into her new true love unfortunately married, and now stationed in Japan).
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"I had to marry a man bigger and more important in every way than myself. Only in such a marriage could I live without a sense of being cramped and confined."
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