THE DIVORCE OF LADY X
1938 - COLOUR

A Delightful British Comedy!!
The film is an adaptation of the same play as Counsel's Opinion (1933). Both films were produced by Alexander Korda, and Binnie Barnes appears in both of them, as Leslie in the earlier film and as Lady Mere in this one.

Lawrence Olivier and Merle Oberon did two movies together within two years. One is considered one of the great romantic films of all time, and the movie that made Olivier a great movie star: WUTHERING HEIGHTS. The other is this film, THE DIVORCE OF LADY X, a romantic comedy made in England a year earlier. 

PLOT:
Everard Logan, a dynamic barrister and a total misogynist checks into a hotel just ahead of a crowd of partygoers. It is a very foggy night and the crowd, who had been attending a party in the hotel, need beds. The management tries to get Logan to allow one or two socialite ladies to sleep on a couch and a day bed in his rooms, but he 
refuses. But he has not reckoned with Leslie Steele, the granddaughter of a high court judge. She manages to get into Logan's rooms and manipulates him into not only agreeing to her sleeping there, but appropriates his bed while he sleeps on the couch 
- much to his displeasure.

The next day they share a breakfast, and in the small talk it is evident that despite his mistrust of women Logan finds Leslie very attractive, but she refuses to tell him her name, being determined to learn more about him and finding his attitude toward women infuriating. In the meantime, Logan is approached by Lord Mere who suspects his wife Lady Mere of having an affair. In fact, he tells Logan her Ladyship was with her lover in the hotel that Logan knows he was in on the night of the fog. Logan naturally jumps to the conclusion that Lady Mere was his mysterious roommate that night...

STARRING:
Merle Oberon ... Leslie
Laurence Olivier ... Logan
Binnie Barnes ... Lady Mere
Ralph Richardson ... Lord Mere
Morton Selten ... Lord Steele
J.H. Roberts ... Slade
Gertrude Musgrove ... Saunders
Gus McNaughton ... Waiter
H.B. Hallam ... Jefferies
Eileen Peel ... Mrs. Johnson

Director: William K. Howard

RUNNING TIME: 92 MINUTES