The Awful Truth 1937 123movies

Watch: The Awful Truth 1937 123movies, Full Movie Online – Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner both do their best to ruin each other’s plans for remarriage, Jerry to haughty socialite Barbara Vance, she to oil-rich bumpkin Daniel Leeson. Among their strategies: Jerry’s court-decreed visitation rights with Mr. Smith, their pet fox terrier, and Lucy doing her most flamboyant Dixie Belle Lee impersonation as Jerry’s brassy “sister” before his prospective bride’s scandalized family..
Plot: Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other’s attempts to find new romance.
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Ratings:

	7.7/10 Votes: 19,833
	93% | RottenTomatoes
	87/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 228 Popularity: 8.24 | TMDB

Reviews:

We’re In On the Joke
This movie is exquisitely directed and acted. The “fourth wall” is gone; the movie rides so high and smart that we as audience can be subtly acknowledged throughout and made complicit in the production, while we continue to believe in the characters and care about what happens to them.

Much of the important dialogue is “throw-away” dialogue, in a sense. It’s clear to the hearing, but lines are often spoken by the characters to themselves, for their own (and our) amusement, or delivered in very deftly choreographed “simultaneity,” each speaker maintaining an independent point of view in rapid-fire repartee. Implications are understated. We are expected to expect the unexpected, to listen to every line.

The plot is composed like a piece of music. Each scene takes moment from the time-line established by the impending day and hour and minute at which a husband (Cary Grant) and wife (Irene Dunne) become legally divorced, and the movie ends at precisely the stroke of midnight which marks that moment. They clearly want each other back, but will they cleave together or cleave apart as the clock strikes midnight?

One extended “movement” of the movie lets Cary Grant charmingly undermine his wife’s new relationship. In corresponding scenes later, Irene Dunne brilliantly plays a dumb floozie, pretending to be the husband’s sister and demolishing in one evening his reputation and his prospects for marriage in respectable society. In these later scenes, in another of the movie’s nice compositional touches, she does a reprise of a hoochie musical number performed earlier by a girlfriend of her husband’s, and then falls into her husband’s arms, apparently drunk. He gestures for her to look back and say goodnight to the horrified guests (and to us) as they do a wonderful little wobbly dance out the door, having burned their bridges behind them.

I found the opening few scenes of the movie unlikable, but with the entrance of Irene Dunne, the movie gets us on board. There’s so much great understated visual and verbal double entendre (in the best sense) that I want to go back and see if there’s more that I missed. In one scene, Cary Grant has brought to Irene Dunne’s new fiancé the paperwork on a coal mine the divorcing couple still own. Interrupted by a visitor while advising the fiancé on where it would good to sink a shaft (har!), he explains that he and the fiancé (brilliantly played by Ralph Bellamy as a very successful bumpkin businessman) are transacting a business deal. The movie moves along briskly and doesn’t play up the point, but we catch, for a fraction of a second, Irene Dunne squirming as she finds herself looking like the business transaction in question. The movie moves through moments like this quickly, with high respect for our intelligence and our capacity to get in on the joke.

Accept No Substitutes! This Is The Best
The funniest comedy ever made. An older friend introduced me to “The Awful Truth” in the days before VCRs. I thought it so hilarious, I taped the dialogue on a tape recorder when it was shown on local channels.

Of course, the most famous scene is the one in which Irene Dunne, still in love with husband Grant, appears at his society girl’s family’s estate. She pretends they are from a class these snobs would not accept. It is Dunne’s finest ten minutes — hilarious and it never grows old.

But the whole movie is funny. Cary Grant and his “continental mind.” Grant thinking he is bursting in on a love nest, only to find himself in the middle of a sedate vocal recital. And Dunne, singing a Tosti song, watches him lovingly as he stumbles and executes pratfalls, ending her son with a laugh rather than the words of her song! Asta, even, is put to better use than he was in the delightful “Thin man” series. Here is their dog Mr. Smith.

Esther Dale never had a better role than as Ralph Bellamy’s prudish and prurient mother. And Bellamy, as he played the wrong man so often in romantic comedies, is easy to take for granted. But he is delightful too.

Joyce Compton, in endless movies for a couple decades, is an absolute scream as Dixie Belle, the risqué nightclub performer with whom Grant takes up at around the time Dunne has taken up with deadly dull Bellamy.

Not only is this sequence funny but it is also touching: Don’t we all, on the rebound, make choices that seem right but turn out catastrophic! I also like “Twentieth Century” and Bringing Up Baby.” I do not like the smug “My Favorite Wife,” also with Dunne and Grant” or the mean “Nothing Sacred.” When it comes to screwball comedy, this is the one! It surely is one of the greatest of all American movies.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min)
Budget 600000
Revenue 3000000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director Leo McCarey
Writer Viña Delmar, Arthur Richman, Sidney Buchman
Actors Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 5 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,524 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm