The awful truth [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures ; directed and produced by Leo McCarey ; screenplay by Viña Delmar.
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FilmPublisher number: 07763 | Columbia TriStar Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Summary language: French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish Original language: English Publication details: [Culver City, CA] : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2003.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0767881494
- 9780767881494
- Cinematography, Joseph Walker ; editor, Al Clark ; Musical Direction/Supervision, Morris W. Stoloff.
- Academy Award, 1937: Best director (Leo McCarey). National Film Registry selection, 1996.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Leo McCarey directed this classic screwball comedy in which Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play Jerry and Lucy Warriner, a couple whose marriage is starting to fall apart. Jerry informs Lucy that he's taking a vacation alone in Florida; instead, he holes up with his buddies and plays poker for a week (while sitting under a sun lamp so he'll have an appropriate tan). Lucy concludes that Jerry was never in Florida just as Jerry discovers that Lucy was spending her time with Armand Duvalle (Alex D'Arcy), a handsome voice teacher. Both Jerry and Lucy believe the other was unfaithful, so they agree to a trial divorce, with a bitter battle fought over custody of Mr. Smith, the dog (Lucy gets the dog, but Jerry has visitation rights). Determined to make Jerry jealous, Lucy continues keeping company with Armand while also dating Daniel Leeson (Ralph Bellamy), a wealthy oil man from Oklahoma. Convinced that turnabout is fair play, Jerry starts going out with Dixie Belle Lee (Joyce Compton), a brassy nightclub singer, as well as socialite Barbara Vance (Molly Lamont). However, Lucy has belatedly decided that she wants Jerry back, and she hatches a plan to win him back by making a spectacle of herself at a party. The Awful Truth was based on a play which had been filmed twice before, but McCarey gave his superb comic cast free reign to improvise and add new business, and the results were splendid; you haven't lived until you've heard Irene Dunne attempt to sing "Home on the Range." ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Based on the play by Arthur Richman.
Special features: Trailers.
Cinematography, Joseph Walker ; editor, Al Clark ; Musical Direction/Supervision, Morris W. Stoloff.
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Mary Forbes, Molly Lamont.
A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final.
DVD ; full screen version, original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1 ; closed-captioned.
English with optional subtitles in English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish ; Closed-captioned.
Academy Award, 1937: Best director (Leo McCarey). National Film Registry selection, 1996.