The Awful Truth. 1937. Directed by Leo McCarey

Film

The Awful Truth. 1937. USA. Directed by Leo McCarey. Screenplay by Vina Delmar. With Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy. 91 min.

Dunne and Grant are famously co-starred in this comic Calvary—a couple’s road to redemption paved with painful hilarity. Made as a freelance assignment for Columbia Pictures, the film revitalized McCarey’s career after the commercial failure of Make Way for Tomorrow that same year. But when The Awful Truth earned McCarey a Best Director Oscar at the 1938 ceremony, he told the Academy, “You gave it to me for the wrong picture.”

This film accompanies Seriously Funny: The Films of Leo McCarey.

Sat, Jul 23, 2016, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Wed, Jul 20, 2016, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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