- published: 10 Sep 2016
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The Awful Truth is a 1937 American screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades. The film was directed by Leo McCarey (who won the Academy Award for Best Director) and was written by Viña Delmar, with uncredited assistance from Sidney Buchman and McCarey, from the 1922 play by Arthur Richman. This was the first of two films that Cary Grant and Ralph Bellamy appeared in together, the second being His Girl Friday (1940) and the first of three wherein Irene Dunne starred with Grant, the others being My Favorite Wife (1940) and Penny Serenade (1941).
In 1996, The Awful Truth was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Jerry Warriner (Cary Grant) returns home from a trip, which he falsely says was to Florida, to find that his wife, Lucy (Irene Dunne), is not at home. When she returns in the company of her handsome music teacher, Armand Duvalle (Alexander D'Arcy), Jerry learns that Lucy spent the night in the country with Armand, after his car, they claim, broke down unexpectedly. Lucy then discovers that Jerry did not actually go to Florida, though he went so far as to get an artificial tan and write multiple fake letters home to convince her that he did. Mutual suspicions result in divorce.
Original air date : 11 April 1999 Segments : "A Cheaper Way to Conduct a Witch Hunt" and "Funeral at an HMO"
Michael Moore sheds light on the fact that some cops have a hard time distinguishing a wallet from a gun.
To help people learn the names of the enemy (bigwigs in corporations) Moore institutes an annual Awful Truth Man of The Year award. / Moore thinks one of the worst things about this whole Clinton/Lewinsky scandal is the obnoxious pundits seen on network television. He decides to have a Pundit Challenge. / Moore receives a restraining order.
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, and Skippy the dog in the 1937 screwball comedy The Awful Truth ~ Please visit my blog http://www.classichollywoodbeauties.com
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance. Director: Leo McCarey Writers: Viña Delmar, Arthur Richman (play), and 1 more credit » Stars: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Ralph Bellamy
Aired on January 18, 1955
this is an excerpt from the second season (episode 7) of the Bravo channel & Michael Moore's TV Series "The Awful Truth".. this part of the program was titled "Corporate Cops" and dealt with how little is done to punish corporate crime & criminals. it was aired on Bravo & Channel 4 (UK) on July 5, 2000. it really represents how little has changed in the last decade+.
Michael Moore investigates a Holiday Inn that reported illegal alien workers... after they tried to start a union.
The awful truth concerning me
The creature-feature mystery
Is simply this
In the worst way
I wanna play
Mrs. Dracula
The challenge is tough
But I know
I've got the stuff
To be just spectacular
Can't you see it in lights?
Rosie really meets Dracula
So close your eyes and visualize
Me in a cape
And fangs in my head
Loving a guy who's mostly dead
I don't see him often
'Cause he sleeps in a coffin
Nothing could be zanier
Than our lives in Transylvania
We're fabulous one day
And rotten the next
Variety says
Those two must be hexed
At six in the morning
When my sweetie is yawning
I feed all the bats, a mush made of rats
Then I tidy the tomb
Cover all the trap doors
And wash any old blood stains off-a the floors
Don't you see
This juicy part was meant for me?
I got the looks
I got the style
I got bloodshot eyes
And a ghastly smile
It's the dream of my life
To play Dracula's wife
The reviews will all rave
This movie's a whopper
A super show-stopper
And no one can top her
Not Rosie
Dear Academy, take note
I should get the Oscar vote
If I don't, I'll bite your throat
Signin' off now