# The Awful Truth (1937)

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**Runtime**: 91 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Romance
**Directed by**: Leo McCarey
**Written by**: Viña Delmar
**Starring**: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont

> *Danger! Wild woman on the loose!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A 1937 comedy about divorce as contact sport. Unfounded suspicions fling a married pair into legal separation, then both gleefully torpedo each other’s rebound dates. Two can play at sabotage, and McCarey proves one-upmanship beats heartbreak.

**Mood tags**: cozy, playful

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