Classic Comedy Drama I Divorce American Style (1967) I Retrospective 

Love the post dinner party scene when they are angry and getting ready for bed, the perfect sliding doors choreography with no talking!

Old films have better scripts and acting than modern ones

Bob Mackie was the Costume Designer ( his first solo credit in a movie). Frances Lear was assistant Costume Designer. She was married to Norman Lear at the time.

I was 3 when this movie premiered and saw it by myself on TV when I was 10 in 1974. I'm an only. My parents divorced when I was a year old. Boy how I remember how sad watching it made me because my father took me to bowling alleys on Sundays too, that is whenever he decided not to ghost me by not picking me up on Saturday mornings. My divorced parents fought constantly. My mother would make me call and needle my father for my child support payments. Sometimes when she became angry/frustrated at me she'd make me stand in front of her and repeat, Anyone who doesn't have children should look 20 years younger." I felt so guilty and like I was a mistake for so much of my life and have struggled with deep depression. I read a quote that said "Never hate your ex more than you love your children." While I don't believe parents should stay married because of children, I do believe there's a special hell for parents who use their anger at a failed relationship/marriage as an opportunity to manipulate their children. I decided long before my teen years to never marry or have any children. I'm 59 now with no regrets. The nice thing is watching this movie now isnt so painful and I actually laughed at some parts. Thanks for posting. 👍🏾

A most entertaining spoof with a great cast of actors and actresses. Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds are both unforgettable bundles of talent. Thanks for uploading.

A favorite, probably seven years old when I saw at the theatre! Love Dick and Debbie! Rip Debbie Reynolds❤

This was a great savvy film. Loved the décor, the women’s clothes - especially Ms Reynolds’ and the story line. Good cast. Excellent entertainment.

Wow..just wow. Got me at the first scene. I absolutely enjoyed myself. The bathroom scene had me amased at the choreography and surprised that the electric toothbrush is so old..and wot an electric hair brush? Tell me that's a prop. I've lived under a rock! 😊

Like watching a replay of my parents’ marriage…fun times…the fifties!!!

I liked the movie, especially the scene where all the exes were introduced with their children. Nothing much has changed

49,000$ house 😂😂😂 please take me back to the 60’s!

Truly a bite out of Reality. I really enjoyed it. Sad but so true.

Interesting, this was written by Norman Lear who paid his wife Frances $112 million in a divorce settlement in ‘83!

The opening is a Classic!

Thanks for the upload. This film was directed with flair & originality also, it was cast really well. I've never heard of this film before today. I really enjoyed it, I thought it was going in a predictable direction then it switched. Although it appeared to be a comedy, it raised some serious points about people's perception of marriage, so maybe it was a dark satire. Debbie Reynolds & Dick Van Dyke are a great pairing, it's a shame they didn't work together more.

I watched to remember all the stage sets. I was a child when this was made.

One of my best films of that era.

This was funny and overwhelming at the same time when I saw it back 55 years ago.

Divorce is such a painful and destructive event. I feel the institution of marriage is in trouble. Marriage can be wonderful. These days there are so many threats to having a good marriage. Love can be complicated and interesting. To all married couples may God give you grace, strength and love for God and each other. For those who desire to be married have fun looking, be observant be honest with yourself of what you want and choose carefully.

Thank you for uploading. I've been wanting to watch this for years! 😉😉😉😉😉

Every teenage boy should watch this. It is true that the system favors the wife. Don't get married until you find the true "till death do you part".

Das Beste an dem Film war die Mimik. Da stand alles drin was die Leute wirklich fühlten. Ohne Worte. Das ist Schauspiel Kunst.

Script by Norman Lear. Says it all. The beginning of the end of the American dream. 😂

Joe Flynn from McHales Navy at the party & Tim Mathison the oldest son. He and Van Johnson were both in Yours, Mine & Ours.

A double cheeseburger, fries & a coke for 67 cents!?

The opening is great 😜

Thanks so much for putting this up! I've waited so long

I've never seen Debbie Reyolds in smart clothes and current hairstyles before this movie. She always dressed sort of frumpy and old, even when young. She looks so much prettier and more youthful.

I’ve been looking for this! Very cool 😎

I love this film! I’m covering every film ever nominated for an Academy Award on my RU-vid channel and I watched this for my 1967 retrospective:))

COVID sure changed all the touchy/feely aspects of social get-togethers. I also never stopped for a pay-as-you-go quicky in 40 years (never before or since my wife died). Why stop for a hamburger when you have steak at home.

Hilarious...but so realistic!

"Men don't grow up, they just grow old". 😂

The wardrobe scene.

I watched this movie a year back. This is second time again Very good movie. Enjoyed watching again.

I enjoyed this thanks for posting. Re- Debbie's criticism of her clothes in the film - (she said in her book Norman Lear put his wife Frances in charge of wardrobe and she was assisted by [and was hard on] Bob Markie [who gets screen credit]. Debbie said she didn't know where the clothes budget went to as they all looked like they were wearing off the rack from JC Penny.). Having seen the film I don't agree. I think her clothes in it were in the main - chic and Californian. The only slight criticism would be the lack of the mini -(for the time) - the skirts were very long. I think Debbie is more glamour oriented but overall the clothes I thought were tasteful and chic.

Great scenes at McDonald's (the only ones that look like that are in Downey, CA and Pomona, CA) and at Dodger Stadium. Very cool scenes.

Luv All the Fabulous Cars 🎯

As someone going through a divorce and custody battle currently, this was difficult to watch.

I remember seeing this at the drive in with my parents!!! oh my

I'm struck by how this film "normalizes " divorce in the 60's. Divorce was anything BUT normal at that time. Really shows how Hollywood affects the culture.

So nice that Dick van Dyke is still alive and well!!!49K house bless!!!Is that even a down payment now!!

This stuff applies today so much. Nothing changes. 🎉

Although this movie sucked :BUT I loved seeing : Amanda Bellows , the clothes , cars , swag lamps , home bars , interiors of a vintage bowling alley, pinball machines , Hymie The Robot, one of the sisters from The Flying Nun, funky room dividers , A look into a VINTAGE McDonalds ! 1:04:53 Lee Grant , inside of an old MALL, Eileen Brennan ! And the Hip Hypnotist !

Great Cast here. Fast forward 50 years, nothing has changed since. 70% Divorce Rate. I founded a Suicide Prevention Program 37 years ago on my birthday, Valentine's day. Split up the middle in conflicts.

This movie is on Tubi as well. Less commercials.

I ALWAYS LOVED JEAN SIMMONS !!!!!

Classic Norman Lear!

Thank you very much for old classic movies , do you have Gone with the Wind.?

Almost better than Mary Poppins if you wish DVD was in MP more than he was A great film I think James Garner is in this too if I remember Thank you for being better than Netflix

Excellent!

For many love and marriage is a merry go round. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Love and marriage is exactly like Married With Children and the Bundys.

Wonder how this movie performed at the box-office back in 67. I doubt that my parents would have ever gone to a see a movie like this since divorce was not common at all in the midwest at that time. I'm surprised that Dick Van Dyke would have taken on this movie role. Vastly different from his squeaky clean image. Glad I saw this movie after all these years, although I'm left feeling really depressed afterward, LOL.

Anyone see the "divorce pattern & child domino effect" here? Lol. One marriage is MORE THAN ENOUGH.

Great movie.

Topanga Plaza at 1:32.

Great Movie

Pat Collins the hip hypnotist!!!!!!

This is one crazy movie, cracked up when the fathers came for the kids, lol🤣🤣🤣🤣

Martinis at 7. Divorce at 9.

Great movie showing the simple adage: ‘the grass isn’t greener on the other side of the street’. (Jeffrey Epstein looks like Jason Robards) The younger son is Will Robinson from Lost in Space and Barbara’s first boyfriend is Mr Cunningham from Happy Days.

I have met several money hungry witches like this. I've also seen women decide not to ask for anything and their ex husband's spend all of their money on the new girlfriend's and shrug off their responsibilities. So divorce stinks no matter how you put it, unless a woman is being beaten and treated like a dog. Then I can't blame a women for wanting to get away from her husband. My favorite thing about this movies is I love that era.

Fun Fact: Emmaline Henry Was The Original Voice Actress Of Cinderella (1950).

"But that's the best part; I understand the mother DIED!"

Nothin like these old flicks thanku

Lee Grant wore the same wigs in every movie

1967 Buick Riviera

Double cheeseburger, french fries and a coke, sixty-five cents

Dick Van Dyke & Debbie Reynolds were superb as a couple in this very entertaining & informative movie. Divorce is really an ugly, demeaning, hurtful & nasty process especially for middle class people who cannot really afford it.

Let's invite young generations enjoy the inspiration and Remake such great production or at least, using the as best academic lectures of acting or... shooting or directing, or managing colours, it's easy now to hold a camera, having a story is a bit more complicated, but getting audience and seven billion dollars incomes like Avatar fantasy on cinema screens is still the most beautiful ambition above all, think about it fans

All the warnings were right here, in 1967 and no-one learned a bloody thing.

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The violin he started with turned into a bass cello and he couldn't figure out how to play it.

Van dyke has always been such a hot hunk. He’s my kind of man ❤

The only people who make money from a divorce is divorce lawyers. Even if both parties are financial independent you still both lose your joint income tax filing benefits and have to spend twice as much on rent and utilities from needing separate domiciles. If you have sexual fantasies about somebody else remember that 30 million people have died of AIDS and keep them fantasies. If you have problems being a self-supporting adult paying your own bills, expect to be treated like a child by the person paying your bills whatever your legal age may be. More than anything else you should try to understand what the other person wants and needs that may not always be what you want or need which gets easier to guess the longer you live with them and is always going to be harder to learn starting a new relationship with somebody else you have fewer shared experiences to learn that from. Been married over 30 years to a woman I proposed to a week after we met.

Easy to see their problems, could have been worked out.

Clairol hot rollers.

Norman Lear was one of the best social satirists of the sixties. His masterpiece was All In the Family, a sitcom about a loveable racial bigot in NYC. But this movie doesn't seem to know what it's supposed to be, a melodrama or a comedy. It doesn't help that it's set in Southern California, but most of the supporting cast sound like they just got off the bus from the Bronx. It impressed me as being a sad movie about sad people trapped in sad lives in sad suburbs. But it was nice to see Debbie at her peak. I gave it 1 star out of 5, before it put me to sleep.

Intelligent Movie

Marriage goes through ups and down and changes you gotta stick with it adapt and move forward together or hold the fort while the other person catches up .Good heavens Dick van dyke attractive in his white boxers how come their house is so tidy!!The 60's were over obsessed with the sex cures all dogma...

unfortunately it's movies like this that help keep the divorce rate as high as it is. I love Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds but I just could not watch this movie. It is very sallow and so is the subject matter.

All these American movies. Where they ever shown on UK TV?

Looks like the housekeeper makes such a mess!!!😂

Mrs Bellow

♾️ is the Will to keep Going 🫦

No COVID back then , with everyone kissing each other hahahaha. How things changed, the good old days have gone .

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Can't believe they showed a McDs!! And Cokes-- nowadays they'd have to negotiate for a year regarding "product placement" as if these things weren't part of the everyday world.... And a whole meal for 67 cents! I was 7 when this came out so pricing wasn't part of my daily worries but then again salaries were also much, much lower. I'd watch this just for the cars alone.

good!

People here must be pretty shut off and numbed down to "love" the expression of failed marriage relations. This movie makes me want to heal, mature and love for real. The dear couple (as well as the others) didn't work with themselves, grieve and learn, at least not enough.And it is not an easy thing. It reminds me of the drama "Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf", although those ar much nastier to each other tha n these two. Let us watch a movie where the couple works throuigh their things, change, heal and learn. They don't come often because few do it. And those who do are too busy doing it to have time for writing and filming about it...

I,m staying single!

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49k house. 😂😂😂

The worst excesses of 1960s Americana.

I didn't know Luke's father was Robert Petrie

Is this the Gidgit house?

Just the beginning gave me huge anxiety🤦‍♀️

Debbie Reynolds once said that she never cared for sex. No wonder Eddie went for Liz. But Debbie is more the norm than the exception. Women use sex to get love. Men use love to get sex. And seldom do the twains meet. But I still like romcoms.☺😜

Didn't recognise Jason Robards!

This is how the swinger lifestyle got started.