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A Bill of DivorcementAnglicization of Ibsen's Ghosts, adapted from Dane's play, in which Barrymore is cast against type as a shellshock patient who escapes from a 15-year spell in a psychiatric institution and returns to the family home, where his daughter, Meg (Hepburn, in the role that made her a star) is gnawing over the possibility that she might have inherited his predisposition to insanity. The story is one of heartbreaking stoicism and eugenic self-sacrifice - despite their elopement plans, Meg rejects her lover (Manners), rather than bring mad children into the world: which gives Hepburn the chance to showcase her faculty for brittle, humorous anguish.
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