The Awful Truth

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Awful Truth, 1937.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Awful Truth, 1937.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Awful Truth, 1937.

Guest host Madeleine Stowe introduces The Awful Truth, 1937.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Awful Truth, 1937.

Cabin-fevered Lucy (Irene Dunne) and Aunt Patsy (Cecil Cunningham) have actually just met neighbor and Oklahoma oil man Leeson (Ralph Bellamy) when her ebullient ex Jerry (Cary Grant) shows up to visit the dog, in Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth, 1937.

Having jumped from just one argument to divorce court, Lucy (Irene Dunne) and Jerry (Cary Grant) wind up disagreeing mostly over the dog, "Mr. Smith," early in Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth, 1937.

The Mother (Esther Dale) of new beau Daniel (Ralph Bellamy) tentatively confronts his almost-divorced fiancee' Lucy (Irene Dunne) with nasty gossip, forcing her ex Jerry (Cary Grant), visiting on a ruse, to step up, in Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth, 1937.

Jerry (Cary Grant), who has not really been in Florida for two weeks, entertains friends (Bess Flowers, Wyn Cahoon, Scott Colton, Robert Allan) until Lucy (Irene Dunne, her first scene) shows up with her aunt (Cecil Cunningham) and a companion (Alexander D'Arcy), early in Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth, 1937.