THE AWFUL TRUTH

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• Release Year: 1937
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Plot: In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other’s infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can’t help meddling in Lucy’s ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman (Ralph Bellamy), and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead. Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folly, The Awful Truth is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistible.
• Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont, Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Robert Allen, Robert Warwick, Mary Forbes, Claud Allister, Asta, Al Bridge, Wyn Cahoon, Ruth Cherrington, Dora Clement, Kathryn Curry, Edgar Dearing, Sarah Edwards, Bess Flowers, Mitchell Harris, Dell Henderson, Arthur Stuart Hull, Scott Kolk, Frank McLure, Bert Moorhouse, Miki Morita, Edmund Mortimer, Zita Moulton, George C. Pearce, Edward Peil Sr., Frances Raymond, Bruce Sidney, Paul Stanton, John Tyrrell, Lee Willard, Frank C. Wilson, Leo McCarey, Viña Delmar, Arthur Richman, Sidney Buchman
• Director: Leo McCarey
• Runtime: 1:31
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Columbia Pictures
• Media Format: Movie