The classic Astaire-Rogers film, The Gay Divorcee, turns on a not-that-different practice that was common in England in order to get a divorce where a professio

The classic Astaire-Rogers film, The Gay Divorcee, turns on a not-that-different practice that was common in England in order to get a divorce where a professional co-respondent would be hired to enable a divorce on the grounds of adultery. I turned up this article on non-fictional uses of co-respondents: http://www.queensilver.org/gstory2.htm http://www.queensilver.org/gstory2.htm