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Uniform Title Awful truth (Motion picture : 1937)
Title The awful truth / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Leo McCarey production ; screen play, Viña Delmar ; directed by Leo McCarey.

Publication Info. [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Department  DVD AWFUL TRUTH    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD AWFUL    Check Shelf
Edition DVD special edition.
Description 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (18 unnumbered pages : illustrations : 19 cm).
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
stamping rdapm
Description digital rdatr
optical rdarm
mono rdacpc
Dolby Digital
NTSC rdabs
video file rdaft
DVD video
region 1 rdare
Motion pictures lcgft
Series The Criterion collection ; 917
Criterion collection ; 917.
System Details DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.
Cast Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont, Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Robert Allen, Robert Warwick, Mary Forbes.
Credits Director of photography, Joseph Walker ; film editor, Al Clark ; music, Ben Oakland ; lyrics, Milton Drake.
Note Based on a play by Arthur Richman.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1937.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Audience Rating: Not rated.
Summary "IIn this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help meddling in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman (Ralph Bellamy), and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead. Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folly, The Awful Truth is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistable"--Container.
Note Special features: New 4K digital restoration; New interview with critic Gary Giddins about director Leo McCarey; "Tell me lies about Cary Grant," a new video essay by film critic David Cairns on Cary Grant's performance; illustrated 1978 audio interview with actor Irene Dunne; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring Grant and Claudette Colbert; in booklet, an essay by Molly Haskell.
Language English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired (SDH).
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Divorce -- Drama.
Divorce. (OCoLC)fst00895809
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Genre/Form Screwball comedy films.
Romantic comedy films.
Comedy films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Comedy films. (OCoLC)fst01710291
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
Romantic comedy films. (OCoLC)fst01710433
Screwball comedy films. (OCoLC)fst01710435
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
Added Author McCarey, Leo, film director, film producer.
Delmar, Viña, 1903-1990, screenwriter.
Dunne, Irene, 1898-1990, actor.
Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor.
Bellamy, Ralph, 1904-1991, actor.
D'Arcy, Alex, 1908-1996, actor.
Cunningham, Cecil, 1888-1959, actor.
Lamont, Molly, 1910-2001, actor.
Dale, Esther, 1885-1961, actor.
Compton, Joyce, 1907-1997, actor.
Allen, Robert, 1906-1998, actor.
Walker, Joseph B., director of photography.
Clark, Al, 1902-1971, editor of moving image work.
Oakland, Ben, 1907-1979, composer (expression)
Drake, Milton, 1912-2006, lyricist.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Richman, Arthur, 1886-1944. Awful truth.
Columbia Pictures Corporation, presenter, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Standard No. 715515213516
ISBN 9781681434230
1681434237
Music No. CC2873D The Criterion Collection
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