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Bookmark this pageThe Awful Truth (1937)
Director: Leo McCarey
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Zappy, sophisticated screwball comedy with Grant and Dunne displaying perfect timing as the husband and wife who get divorced and then, after enjoying quick flings with a cabaret artiste and an oil tycoon respectively, decide to get together again. A routine story perhaps, but McCarey transforms it , through his customary affection for his characters and taut pacing, into delightfully effective entertainment. The erotically teasing ending, with a black cat obstinately barring the communicating bedroom door which the almost un-estranged couple are praying will open, has a delicacy of touch that Lubitsch rarely managed.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Leo McCarey
Producer: Leo McCarey
Cast: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 91 mins
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