Sunday, February 12, 2017

Saturday, Feb. 11 - The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth (1937)

Grant and Dunne are Jerry and Lucy Warriner, a madcap Manhattan society couple bent on divorce. In those days it took 90 days for a divorce to become final. Over the course of those 3 months these 2 each embark on a new relationship and at the same time do whatever they must to sabotage the other's budding romance.

Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner both do their best to ruin each other's plans for remarriage, Jerry to haughty socialite Barbara Vance, she to oil-rich bumpkin Daniel Leeson. Among their strategies: Jerry's court-decreed visitation rights with Mr. Smith, their pet fox terrier, and Lucy doing her most flamboyant Dixie Belle Lee impersonation as Jerry's brassy "sister" before his prospective bride's scandalized family.

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