#the awful truth

[lifelong-roman-holiday]

@renee561 @heatherfield @austennerdita2533 @missielynne @anyone else who wants to vote and reblog!

#poll #screwball comedy #polls #libeled lady #arsenic and old lace #his girl friday #the lady eve #the awful truth #my man godfrey #bringing up baby #it happened one night #i love most of these so much that i don't know which to vote for! #also i didn't include the philadelphia story because it isn't quite screwball imo? #but admittedly i have a bias against that film - it's one of the few acclaimed classics I don't like despite adoring the cast :) #old hollywood

[classicfilmblr]

THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937) dir. Leo McCarey

#ours #by kumi #1930s #irene dunne #the awful truth #classicfilmedit #filmedit #filmgifs #comedyedit #userteri #usermichi #userrobin

[vietlad]

Cary Grant as Jerry Warriner in The Awful Truth (1937) dir. Leo McCarey

#classicfilmsource #cinemapast #classicfilmcentral #classicfilmblr #userbbelcher #useralex #userjonah #filmgifs #userdeforest #uservintage #userairam #uservienna #ritahayworrth #the awful truth #cary grant #gifs #vietlad

[classicfilmsource]

You said, "Lend an ear, I implore you, this comes from my heart: I'll always adore you, 'til death do us part." Remember? It was pretty swell... I mean, while it lasted. But all beautiful things must end, so I guess we might as well call it a day.

Irene Dunne & Cary Grant in The Awful Truth 1937 dir. Leo McCarey

#filmedit #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmblr #filmgifs #dailyflicks #doyouevenfilm #moviegifs #ritahayworrth #userelissa #uservienna #userrobin #the awful truth #ours #gifs #by ria #1930s

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

The Awful Truth / Irene Dunne as Lucy Warriner

One of the things I love about black and white movies is these bold designs on clothing. It feels like you don't see that so often in color movies, or maybe it just pops more in B&W because of the high contrast. The shape of this dress is also unique, as is the scarf/cravat effect in front. You might say this is the "quirky 1930s," as opposed to the sleek "classic 1930s" look from yesterday.

Costumes for this movie were designed by (Robert) Kalloch.

#the awful truth #coeli's picks #irene dunne #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #1937 movies #1937 films #1930s fashion #1930s style #30s fashion #30s style #black and white movies #kalloch #robert kalloch #black and white films #classic hollywood #classic films #old hollywood

[cinematicfinatic]

Irene and Cary .... The Awful Truth

#irene dunne #cary grant #the awful truth #classic movies #classic hollywood #1930s

[rhade-zapan]

The Awful Truth ~ Leo McCarey ~ 1937

Feat: Cary Grant

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#The Awful Truth #Leo McCarey #Film #Cary Grant #Gif #30s film #screwball comedy #reaction gif #whoa #classic hollywood

[thebarroomortheboy]

Irene Dunne later recalled the scene where she pretends to be Cary Grant’s ill-bred nightclub performer sister, which was written over a weekend and handed to her on the morning she was scheduled to film it. She was supposed to do a burlesque bump in the middle of her musical number, a move she was never able to do. Leo McCarey told her to just say, "Never could do that" when she got to that moment. She did, it stayed in the film, and Dunne found it "a choice comic bit."

The Awful Truth (1937) | dir. Leo McCarey 

#1930s cinema #1937 #the awful truth #irene dunne #cary grant #filmedit #mygifs #classicfilmsource #classicfilmgifs #oldhollywood #oldhollywoodedit #oldhollywoodgif #filmblr #comedyedit #love cary's reaction

[panzerdrako]

by Bill Watterson

#calvin and hobbes #bill watterson #strip comic #comic #the awful truth

[spellboundcinema]

#irene dunne #cary grant #the awful truth #classicfilmblr #classic cinema #classic film #classic hollywood #old hollywood #old hollywood film #black and white gif #old hollywood gif #cary grant gif #irene dunne gif #1937

[itsdlevy]

There has never been a better set of reaction shots on film than what Ralph Bellamy, Cary Grant, and especially Irene Dunne are doing in this scene.

#The Awful Truth #Cary Grant #Irene Dunne #Ralph Bellamy #Joyce Compton #Youtube

[onefootin1941]

The Awful Truth, 1937

The Awful Truth is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant.

The film was a box office hit. It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor. McCarey won for Best Director. The Awful Truth was selected in 1996 for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.

The Awful Truth was the first of three film pairings co-starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, followed by My Favorite Wife (1940) and Penny Serenade (1941).

Gross box office receipts for The Awful Truth were more than $3 million ($57 million in 2021 dollars). The film made a profit of $500,000 ($9.4 million in 2021 dollars) in a year when Columbia Pictures' studio-wide profit margin was just $1.3 million ($24.5 million in 2021 dollars)

Although he was not nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, the film was a triumph for Cary Grant. Overnight he was transformed into an A-list leading man."The Cary Grant Persona" was fully established by this film, and Grant not only became an able improviser but often demanded improvisation in his films thereafter.

#the awful truth #leo mccarey #1937 #irene dunne #cary grant #skippy #big box office #film history #screen partners #radio city music hall #cary grant persona

[haveyouseenthisromcom]

#movies #polls #the awful truth #irene dunne #cary grant #leo mccarey #ended #result: unheard of

[scarlettohairdye]

"Wow, burlesque! That must be so glamorous!"

...yeah? I guess?

[video description: a pale white woman with red hair wearing a black and white striped sports bra under a strappy metallic red lingerie onesie and knee-high red high-heeled boots squats on the floor next to a long purple ponytail hairpiece that she is brushing. It looks like it's going to take a while.]

#burlesque #behind the scenes #the awful truth

[womansfilm]

The Awful Truth (1937) / My Favorite Wife (1940)

#if they did their little sneering look at me i would kill myself ngl #the awful truth #my favorite wife #cary grant #irene dunne #m #it's like no one even tries to do this anymore..

[scenephile]

No, things are the way you think I made them.

#the awful truth #leo mccarey #irene dunne #cary grant #lucy warriner #jerry warriner #scenephile #screwball comedy #movie quotes #film quotes #movie scenes #film scene #movie scene