The Divorce of Lady X
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Date: 2022-01-07

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The Divorce of Lady X is a 1938 British Technicolour romantic comedy film produced by London Films; it stars Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Binnie Barnes.
It was directed by Tim Whelan and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Ian Dalrymple and Arthur Wimperis, adapted by Lajos Bíró from the play Counsel's Opinion by Gilbert Wakefield.
The music score was by Miklós Rózsa and Lionel Salter and the cinematography by Harry Stradling.
The film is a remake of the 1933 film Counsel's Opinion, also from London Films and in which Binnie Barnes appeared in the role played by Merle Oberon.
Party guests at a smart London hotel are stranded by a thick evening fog.
All rooms end up being taken.
Leslie Steele, a young, pretty but madcap socialite, barges her way into Everard Logan's suite.
He promptly registers one objection after another, but all of his efforts to evict Leslie are to no avail.
He thus agrees to a compromise, allowing her use of the bedroom, while he takes another room in the suite.
She spends the entire time teasing and taunting him.
By breakfast, Logan changes his tune and insists they meet again.
But while he's out of the room, dressing, she mysteriously bolts for home, which she shares with her grandfather/judge.
He informs her that Logan is a barrister specializing in divorce cases.
The zany, impulsive Ms.
Steele then tells her grandfather she intends to marry Logan.
To her surprise, she learns that Logan will be pleading a case before her grandfather's court that day.
So she attends the proceeding to observe her intended in action – and to her further surprise, sees him mercilessly rip to shreds a w...