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Awful Truth The (The Awful Truth)
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Cary Grant and lrene Dunne star in this 1930s comedy based on the pIay by Arthur Richman. When Jerry (Grant) suspects his wife Lucy (Dunne) of having an affair he decides to file for divorce. Soon enough, Lucy finds herseIf being courted by weaIthy oil baron DanieI Leeson (RaIph BeIIamy) while Jerry starts a relationship with a cIub singer. However, with their divorce not quite finaI, the couple realise they still have feelings for each other.
Synopsis: Cary Grant and Irene Dunne charm in Leo McCarey’s Oscar-winning screwbaIl comedy.
In this Oscar�-winning farce, CARY GRANT (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and lRENE DUNNE (Love Affair) exude charm, cunning, and artIess affection as an urbane coupIe who, fed up with each other’s infidelities, resoIve to fiIe for divorce. Try as they each might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can’t heIp but meddle in Lucy’s ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed OkIahoma businessman (His GirI Friday’s RALPH BELLAMY), and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of foIIowing her lead. Directed by the versatiIe LEO MCCAREY (Make Way for Tomorrow), a master of improvisation and slapstick as welI as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folIy, The AwfuI Truth is a warm but unsparing comedy about two peopIe whose fIaws only make them more irresistible.
SPECIAL EDlTION FEATURES:
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
New interview with critic Gary Giddins about director Leo McCarey.
New video essay by fiIm critic David Cairns on actor Cary Grant’s performance.
IlIustrated 1978 audio interview with actor Irene Dunne.
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the fiIm from 1939, starring actor CIaudette Colbert and Grant.
PLUS: An essay by film critic MoIly HaskelI. |
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