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. Even though she knows that he is in love with another woman, she refuses to grant him a divorce and repeat the mistake of her divorced parents. Produced by Jesse L. Lasky, E. Lloyd Sheldon, and Adolph Zukor for the Famous Players–Lasky, the film was released on April 25, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

As children, Jean Waddington (Yvonne Pelletier) and Kitty Flanders (Joyce Coad) meet in a boarding school, both dropped off by their divorced parents as inconvenient children. One day Ted Larrabee (Marion Feducha), whose parents are also divorced, climbs over the school wall, and the three of them commiserate and pledge to never divorce.