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List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $4.96 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 21 October, 1937 DVD Release : 11 March, 2003 |
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The Awful Truth description One of the top five screwball comedies of the '30s, this helped to cement a genre that waxed golden until the end of WWII. Director Leo McCarey won an Oscar for Best Director for this 1937 romantic comedy--one of the most successful films of his career. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are a squabbling couple who separate because of supposed infidelities on both sides. They part but cannot really keep away from each other. Grant finds himself hooked up with a socialite, Dunne becomes engaged to a millionaire hick played by the hapless Ralph Bellamy (as if he ever stood a chance as the "other" man!). When not dating others or baiting one another in a verbal war, Grant and Dunne wage a custody battle over their pathetic pooch. Gags, double entendre, witty remarks, snide comments, and fast-paced dialogue helped this to garner six Academy Award nominations. The Awful Truth was awfully good to Dunne and Grant, as both were breaking out of much more serious molds and this secured their positions. --Rochelle O'Gorman |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Snappy Dialogue, Great Fun |
| This frothy gem from the heyday of scewball comedy is a romp from start to finish. Dunne and Grant are a well off, cosmopolitan couple who file for divorce after a series of misunderstandings cause them to doubt each other. The dialogue is first rate with zingers and double entandre flying back and forth. Sets, costume and photography lend a glitter to a bygone time when the world was anything but fun.
My only beef with the picture is the cavalier way this couple toy with Dunne's boyfriend played with painful sincerity by Ralph Bellamy. It makes you almost wish Lucy (Dunne) would end up with Bellamy in Oklahoma City. |
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