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The Awful Truth
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.
27 January 1907, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
9 October 1878, Sacramento, California, USA
2 August 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
10 November 1885, Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
30 December 1879, Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
18 January 1904, Horfield, Bristol, England, UK
28 March 1906, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
22 May 1910, Boksburg, Transvaal, South Africa
17 June 1904, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 December 1898, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
10 August 1908, Cairo, Egypt
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.
December 06, 2005
Its sophistication convinced the Academy that it was more than "just" a comedy and they awarded McCarey the Best Director Oscar
April 10, 2007
...has earned its reputation as one of the most effective screwball comedies from the 1930s.
April 04, 2003
As pleasurable as anything a Hollywood studio and the star system ever produced.
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.
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.
January 07, 2006
A smart screwball comedy from the 1930s that's given the Lubitsch touch by director Leo McCarey.
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.
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.
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.