Children of Divorce (1927 film)

Children of Divorce is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, and Gary Cooper.

Adapted from the 1927 novel of the same name by Owen Johnson, and written by Louis D. Lighton, Hope Loring, Alfred Hustwick, and Adela Rogers St. Johns, the film is about a young flapper who tricks her wealthy friend into marrying her during a night of drunken revelry.

Jean Waddington (Yvonne Pelletier) and Kitty Flanders (Joyce Coad) meet in a boarding school, both dropped off by their divorced parents as inconvenient children.

At a party that night, Kitty tells her lover Prince Ludovico de Saxe (Einar Hanson) that since he has no money, she can't marry him; and sets her sights on the wealthy Ted.

Josef von Sternberg, recently enlisted as an assistant director at Paramount, was tasked with “salvaging” Children of Divorce by rewriting the text of the intertitles.

Clara Bow (Kitty Flanders) and Gary Cooper (Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee)
The film.