The Awful Truth
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Leo McCarey
Writer: Viña Delmar, Sidney Buchman
Producer: Leo McCarey
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.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Director.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Academy Award for Best Actress; Academy Award for Best Film Editing; Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; and 1 more.
- The film is based on the stage play The Awful Truth by playwright Arthur Richman.
- In that play, created on September 18, 1922, at the Henry Miller's Theater of Broadway (current Stephen Sondheim Theatre), Norman Satterly divorces his wife, Lucy Warriner Satterly, after they accuse one another of infidelity.
- Lucy is about to remarry, but needs to clear her name before her fiancé will agree to go forward with the marriage.
Previous Showings
9 Runs • 6 Festivals
13,024 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (October 25, 1930)
Original Run: October 25, 1930 (Saturday)
All runs on record (9):
- October 25, 1930 (Saturday)Ina Claire, Henry Daniel
- August 15 - 18, 1992 · 2,955 ticketsw/ Topper
- May 7 - 10, 1994 · 1,585 ticketsw/ Theodora Goes Wild
- November 14 - 17, 1998 · 916 ticketsRomantic Comedy Seriesw/ Shall We Dance
- March 8 - 21, 2002 · 3,342 ticketscg2-2002w/ Bringing Up Baby
- November 15 - 16, 2003 · 891 ticketsSatyajit Ray 2003w/ Mahanagar
- November 10 - 11, 2004 · 765 ticketsBrandow/ Roberta
- May 22 - 24, 2015 · 1,288 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ Hot Saturday
- July 15 - 16, 2023 · 1,282 ticketsSummer 2023: The Best of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcockw/ Topper