laurence olivier and merle oberon and ralph richardson and and binnie barnes star in the divorce of lady x and a 1938 comedy base on a play . olivier play a young barrister and everard logan who allow oberon to spend the night in his hotel room and when the london fog be too dense for guest at a costume ball to go home . the next day and a friend of his and lord mere ( richardson ) and announce that his wife ( barnes ) spend the night with another man at the same hotel and and he want to divorce her . believe the woman to be oberon and olivier panic . oberon and who be single and the granddaughter of a judge and pretend that she the lady in question and lady mere and when she really leslie steele . we have see this plot or variation thereof dozen of time . with this cast and it delightful . i mean and richardson and olivier . olivier and oberon and that great team in wuthering height . pretty special . olivier be devastatingly handsome and do a great job with the comedy a he portray the uptight and nervous barrister . oberon give her role the right light touch . she look extremely young here and fuller in the face and with jean harlow eyebrow and a very different hairdo for her . she wear some beautiful street clothes and though her first gown look like a birthday cake and and in one gown she try on and with that hair do and she ready to play snow white . binnie barnes be delightful a the real lady mere . the color in this be a mess and and a others have mention and it could really use a restoration . definitely worth see .