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Divorce in Reno
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A Forgotten Trope popular when divorce was difficult in most of the United States but much easier in Nevada. In the early 20th century, most American states had fairly strict divorce laws, often only granting divorces for specific cause (abandonment, adultery, etc note And in many cases, Domestic Abuse wasn't on that list, as it was seen as a private matter rather than a public health and safety issue, and also seen as something the victim deserved, rather than a wrongdoing on the abuser's part. ) and often requiring a long waiting period, and for both spouses to be present in the courtroom. No-fault divorce was rare until The '70s after California introduced it in 1969, and more and more states began to follow suit. (The last state in the Union to adopt no-fault divorce, New York, only did so in 2010.) In Nevada, however, no-fault divorce was legal by the early 20th century. Even more significantly, in 1931 the residency requirement to establish residency in Nevada, and thus be able to get divorced in Nevada, was reduced to only six weeks. So while in most of America one would have to wait quite a long time to get a divorce, and one would probably have to show cause why one should be allowed a divorce, one could go to Nevada and get a divorce in six weeks, no questions asked. Many old movies and plays about the fashionable upper classes will have characters travel to Reno, Nevada, to obtain painless divorces. (At this time Reno was by far the biggest city in Nevada, as Las Vegas did not start developing until The '50s.) Reno businessmen went out of their way to attract those seeking Nevada divorces with specialist lawyers and affordable extended-stay hotels. Eventually, as the other 49 states liberalized their divorce laws, thus making divorce vacations to Nevada unnecessary, this became a Forgotten Trope. (Well, not quite. Nevada is still used for these kinds of divorces, but today the main reason is to bypass the community property laws of some states, most notably California. Another reason is to get the juiciest settlement possible; a notable use of this trope is England - which didn't technically have no-fault divorce until the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 - using the process known as "forum shopping".) Other places with lax divorce laws, known on That Other Wiki as divorce mills, may also serve the same purpose. That Wiki also has a page on a similar practice involving Mexico. The Inverted Trope, where people go to get married because marriage is easier there, is Elopement. |
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Inverted in Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. Roger proposed to Jessica on the night of their first date. They then flew to Reno to elope. Their marriage, however, only lasted a year. | |
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In Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, Angela Hoffa and Harry Bannerman are having a tryst when she mentions that she'll be away for a few weeks in Reno. Harry is instantly chilled by this news, but Angela reassures him that Harry had nothing to do with breaking up her marriage to Oscar, who thinks a divorce serves her right. (What Harry doesn't know at this point is that Angela is determined to break up his marriage.) | |
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In The Lady Eve this is the suggested remedy when Henry Fonda wants to rid himself of Barbara Stanwyck, who is actually running The Con against him. | |
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In My Wife's Relations, Buster Keaton boards a train to Reno, signaling that he's going to escape his Accidental Marriage. | |
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Dance, Girl, Dance: Elinor has a ticket for Reno at the beginning. She seems to want Jimmy to talk her out of it but the conversation goes awry, and she winds up leaving for a six-week Nevada vacation. | |
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At the time of this trope, divorce wasn't considered a polite topic of conversation, so this could be used as a complete euphemism. Here's a middle-class example from the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (having nothing to do with the main plot): | |
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On Mad Men, Betty flies to Reno at the end of Season 3 (set in 1963) to get a divorce from Don. | |
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Referenced in The Shawshank Redemption (the beginning of which takes place in the late 1940s). Andy learns that his wife is having an affair, and she wants a divorce. Both she and her lover are killed shortly afterwards. At trial the prosecutor repeats Andy's response to his wife — "I'll see you in hell before I'll see you in Reno" — and this is one of several factors that convinces the jury to find Andy guilty. | |
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Tijuana, another once-popular destination for quickie divorces, serves the same purpose for the housewife who hitches a ride with the party-seeking college boys in Road Trip. | |
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In Libeled Lady (1936), Bill tries to surprise Gladys with the news that she's technically still married to her first husband, but Gladys subverts this when she tells him she got a divorce in Reno. | |
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In That Thing You Do!, waitress Mauguerite mentions getting married in Portland before moving to Reno... right where she got a divorce. | |
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In The Misfits, this is why Roslyn is in Reno. Right after getting her divorce, she falls in love with an older local man. | |
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Merry Wives of Reno: Two wives go from New York to Reno to get divorced because they both think their husbands cheated on him with a third woman (only one of them is correct). The latter half of the film is set in Reno, which is depicted as a non-stop bacchanalia of sex and drinking. | |
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Referenced in The Skin of Our Teeth as Sabina is summarizing a "skipped" scene. | |
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In a Very Special Episode of The Facts of Life, Blair is incredulous that a troubled new student's mother lives in Nevada. "Nevada? Nobody lives in Nevada except Wayne Newton and women getting a divorce." (Realization hits her, and she understands the problem.) | |
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The rebuilt city of New Reno in Fallout 2 is the only place where you can get divorced from your spouse should you be unhappy with the results of a Shotgun Wedding. | |
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John Cheever wrote a lot of stories about unhappy couples who lived in New York so this trope popped up several times. In "The Season of Divorce" a housewife's would-be beau pops up at her (and her husband's) apartment unannounced, with a check made out to the wife, which he hopes she'll use to go to Reno and get a divorce. | |
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These lines from the song "Shuffle off to Buffalo", which was featured in 42nd Street. | |
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In His Girl Friday Hildy mentions going to Reno to get a divorce from Walter. | |
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The Married Couple of the Year Two: In 1793 South Carolina, protagonist Nicolas Philibert (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is an exiled (and married) Frenchman who wants to divorce from his wife Charlotte (Marlène Jobert), who stayed in France, so he can marry his American girlfriend. He can't in the USA since Charlotte is not present for that, but divorce has been recently legalized in Revolutionary France, so he has to travel back to France to divorce from her. | |
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Golden Boy: Tom takes on Joe as a prizefighter because Tom is desperate for $5000 to buy off his wife so he can get a divorce. He is thrilled when she gets a boyfriend and goes to Reno, saving him the money. | |
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"Cowboy", from season one of M*A*S*H subverts this. Cowboy's wife sent him a letter from Reno. Hawkeye and Trapper, reading it to Cowboy over the radio, panic about the implications until Cowboy reveals he lives in Reno. They panic again when they read "Dear John", only for Cowboy to reveal that his real name is John Hodges. Cowboy's wife reassures him in the letter that she loves him and would never cheat or leave him. | |
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In romantic comedy Phffft!!, Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday get divorced in Reno but can't seem to get out of each other's lives. | |
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In The Fountainhead, Dominique travels to Reno to get a divorce from Peter Keating. Her later divorce from Gail Wynand is more conventional. | |
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In Stephen King's novel 11/22/63, the romantic interest of the main character becomes a cocktail waitress in Nevada for six weeks so that she can divorce her psychotic husband. | |
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In Charlie Chan in Reno, Charlie's son when he hears his dad is going to Reno — actually to consult the Reno Police on a case — is afraid his parents are getting a divorce. | |
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In Follow the Fleet (1935), Bilge never actually says that Iris is divorced. He says that her husband didn't understand her, "so the poor kid had to go to Reno." | |
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In The Dark Horse, political campaign manager Hal Blake, who's in love with pretty secretary Kay, winds up being pretty much blackmailed into remarrying Maybelle, his shrew of an ex-wife. But after Hal's candidate wins the election, Hal gets an offer to run a campaign for governor of Nevada. In the Happy Ending, he tells Kay that he'll get a divorce while he's there. | |
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One segment of The Women takes place in a Nevada dude ranch where assorted wives, including a Countess about to divorce her fourth husband as well as the main cast's Mary and Sylvia, are waiting to establish residency for their divorces. A newspaper gossip column refers to Miriam Aarons as "being Reno-vated". | |
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Downton Abbey: Michael Gregson tried to obtain German citizenship (after also considering Greece and Portugal) so he can divorce there. Gregson's wife was irretrievably mentally ill and did not even recognize Gregson, but at the time (the early 1920s), British law did not allow divorce in such situations. (In one of Downton Abbey's trademark legal ironies, English law would permit divorce for "incurable insanity" not terribly long afterward, upon the passage of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1937.) German law, however, did, and he moved to Munich to begin the arduous process of becoming a German citizen. Unfortunately, he is killed by Nazi Brownshirts within a year of arriving.note An additional legal irony—probably one either not seen by the writers or deliberately ignored for the Rule of Drama—is that Gregson could have gone for the literal version of this trope by moving to the United States (easy enough for an Englishman, especially a well-off one trying to marry a woman with even better-off American relatives) for five years, acquiring American citizenship, and then going to Nevada long enough to divorce his English wife. | |
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