THE AWFUL TRUTH

DIRECTOR: Leo McCarey
WRITERS: Vina Delmar, based on a play by Arthur Richman
STARS: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne
SUPPORTING PLAYERS: Ralph Bellamy, Asta
1937, 92m
Academy Award: Best Director
Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor (Ralph Bellamy)

"The most accomplished of all the screwball comedies in terms of the behavioral charm and breeziness of humor...The Awful Truth seems more profound in the nineties than it did in the more solemn, more genteel critical climate of the thirties. The essential childishness of adult behavior does not cause one to blush as markedly now as it did then. Of course, McCarey was blessed with a company of inspired farceurs." -- Andrew Sarris.

"Arguably the supreme example of the ‘life is a game’ school of comedy. Grant and Dunne are both rich, pampered and handsome; they are also relentlessly facetious, with no objective in life other than to trump the other's ace." -- David Shipman.

SHOWTIMES: SUN 2:50, 6:25, 10:00
MON 3:10

CO-FEATURE: THE THIN MAN

ALSO PLAYING ON SUNDAY, APRIL 21 (separate admission): SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT
ALSO ON PLAYING ON MONDAY, APRIL 22 (separate admission): GRANDMA'S BOY