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The Awful Truth is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Leo McCarey, and starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant.Based on the 1922 play The Awful Truth by Arthur Richman, the film recounts a distrustful rich couple who begin divorce proceedings, only to interfere with one another's romances.
McCarey himself believed that it was his finest film. When he accepted his Academy Award for Best Director for The Awful Truth, which was released the same year, he said, "Thanks, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture." [6] Make Way for Tomorrow earned good reviews when originally released in Japan, where it was seen by screenwriter Kogo ...
Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was involved in nearly 200 films, including the critically acclaimed Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth, Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's, My Son John and An Affair to Remember.
Grant starred in ten films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"; She Done Him Wrong (1933), The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl ...
There were ten nominees for Best Picture: The Awful Truth (also director [win], actress and supporting actor), Captains Courageous (also actor [win]), Dead End (also supporting actress), The Good Earth (also director and actress [win]), In Old Chicago (also supporting actress [win]), Lost Horizon (also supporting actor), One Hundred Men and a ...
Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes 78% | IMDb 6.4/10 In this thrid installment of the Descendants series, Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos must work together to save the citizens of Auradon from a terrifying dark ...
The first was the drama Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), the story of an elderly couple losing their home to foreclosure; the second, the romantic comedy The Awful Truth (1937), now considered among the top screwball comedy films ever produced.
ON FEBRUARY 11, 1937, Earhart, then 39 years old, announced her worldwide flight. She told the reporters that she was “tired of flying the Atlantic,” and had decided to become the first woman ...