<I>The Awful Truth</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1937
name: label: Directed by
content: Leo McCarey, American, 1898 - 1969
label: Produced by
content: Leo McCarey, American, 1898 - 1969
label: Subject of
content: Irene Dunne DHS, American, 1898 - 1990
label: Subject of
content: Cary Grant, British American, 1904 - 1986
label: Distributed by
content: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
label: Owned by
content: D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
notes: label: Caption
content: This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.
label: Description
content: A screwball comedy film with the title The Awful Truth. It consists of two reels of black-and-white 16mm acetate film with sound.
label: Description
content: The film tells the story of Lucy and Jerry Warriner (Irene Dunne and Cary Grant), a married couple who mutually decide to get a divorce due to erroneous suspicions of infidelity. Mrs. Warriner vacates the couple's home and takes Daniel Leeson (Ralph Bellamy), an Oklahoma oil baron, as a lover, while Mr. Warriner finds a paramour in Barbara Vance (Molly Lamont), a wealthy socialite. The couple eventually abandons their divorce plans the night before it is to be finalized.
place: label: Place used
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
label: Place filmed
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Comedy
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Hollywood (Film)
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: DC Public Library Film Collection
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.55.114.1ab
objectType: label: Type
content: sound films
label: Type
content: black-and-white films (visual works)
label: Type
content: feature films
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions likely apply. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: acetate film
label: Dimensions
content: Duration (Reel 1): 27 Minutes
label: Dimensions
content: Length (Film): 975 Feet
label: Dimensions
content: Duration (Reel 2): 30 Minutes
label: Dimensions
content: Length (Film): 1075 Feet