The Awful Truth starring Cary Grant
Director: Leo McCarey

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One of the top five screwball comedies of the '30s, this helped to cement a genre that waxed golden until the end of WWII. Director Leo McCarey won an Oscar for Best Director for this 1937 romantic comedy--one of the most successful films of his career. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are a squabbling couple who separates because of supposed infidelities on both sides. They part, but cannot really keep away from each other. Grant finds himself hooked up with a socialite, Dunne becomes engaged to a millionaire hick played by the hapless Ralph Bellamy (as if he ever stood a chance as the "other" man!). When not dating others or baiting one another in a verbal war, Grant and Dunne wage a custody battle over their pathetic pooch. Gags, double entendre, witty remarks, snide comments, and fast-paced dialogue helped this to garner six Academy Award nominations. The Awful Truth was awfully good to Dunne and Grant, as both were breaking out of much more serious molds and this secured their positions.

Synopsis
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne star in the definitive madcap comedy of re-marriage. Jerry Warriner returns from his two-week Florida vacation to find his socialite wife Lucy has also been away from home. When she saunters in, flanked by the handsome Armand, with the unlikely excuse they attended a high school prom, Jerry looks the fool in front of their society pals. But after discovering that the oranges Jerry's brought from Florida are stamped California, Lucy realizes her husband's been up to his own games. Agreeing to disagree, they file for divorce and begin new romances. But before their divorce decree is final, these mixed-up love birds will be back in each others arms.

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A sophisticated divorced couple try to go on with their separate romantic lives, but each can't resist sabotaging the other's attempts--and then realize they can't resist each other, either--in this screwball classic. Based on the 1922 play by Arthur Richman. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Best Picture, Best Actress--Irene Dunne, Best Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Director.

 

 

 

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