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The Awful Truth
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Married couple Lucy and Jerry Warriner both suspect the other of cheating and find themselves in divorce court. Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner both do their best to ruin each other's plans for remarriage, Jerry to haughty socialite Molly Lamont, she to oil-rich bumpkin Daniel Leeson.
Married couple Lucy and Jerry Warriner both suspect the other of cheating and find themselves in divorce court. Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner both do their best to ruin each other's plans for remarriage, Jerry to haughty socialite Molly Lamont, she to oil-rich bumpkin Daniel Leeson.
Actors:
Mary Forbes,
Sarah Edwards,
Cary Grant,
Dell Henderson,
Edgar Dearing,
Al Bridge,
Bess Flowers,
Frank McLure,
Claud Allister,
Tom Ferrandini,
Molly Lamont,
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Mary Forbes
30 December 1879, Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
Sarah Edwards
11 October 1881, Glyn Train, Denbighshire, South Wales, UK
Cary Grant
18 January 1904, Horfield, Bristol, England, UK
Dell Henderson
July 5, 1883 in St Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Edgar Dearing
4 May 1893, Ceres, California, USA
Al Bridge
26 February 1891, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bess Flowers
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
Frank McLure
July 14, 1893 in Mobile, Alabama, USA
Claud Allister
3 October 1888, London, England, UK
Tom Ferrandini
November 28, 1901 in Alabama, USA
Molly Lamont
22 May 1910, Boksburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Director:
Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey
3 October 1896, Los Angeles, California, USA
Country:
United States
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August 16, 2003
Episodic but sublime screwball comedy, with Grant and Dunne at their most alluring.
June 24, 2006
Zappy, sophisticated screwball comedy with Grant and Dunne displaying perfect timing.
April 04, 2003
As pleasurable as anything a Hollywood studio and the star system ever produced.
November 09, 2006
One of the best screwball comedies (of remarriage) ever made, based on the astute mise-en-scene of director Leo McCarey (who won an Oscar) and superb turns from Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as the sparrying partners.
December 06, 2005
Its sophistication convinced the Academy that it was more than "just" a comedy and they awarded McCarey the Best Director Oscar
February 17, 2006
The look of love [Grant] gives co-star Irene Dunne, captured not in a close-up but a medium-wide shot, could melt anyone.
May 27, 2008
Leo McCarey's largely improvised 1937 film is one of the funniest of the screwball comedies, and also one of the most serious at heart.
May 27, 2008
A joy.
January 07, 2006
A smart screwball comedy from the 1930s that's given the Lubitsch touch by director Leo McCarey.
May 21, 2003
To be frank, The Awful Truth is awfully unimportant, but it is also one of the more laughable screen comedies of 1937, a fairly good vintage year.
February 10, 2006
One should be rooting for Cary Grant to get the girl, which means he ought to deserve her — and if that's more or less the case here, well, it's only because the girl turns out to be no great shakes either.
April 10, 2007
...has earned its reputation as one of the most effective screwball comedies from the 1930s.