Jerry Warriner tells his wife he is going on vacation to Florida, but instead spends the week at his sports club in New York City. He returns home to … See more

Principal photography began on June 21, 1937, without a completed script. This so concerned Ralph Bellamy that the Friday before filming started he contacted Harry Cohn to ask where … See more

The film was nominated for six Academy Awards (only winning Best Director for Leo McCarey).
After winning the … See more

The cast includes:
• Irene Dunne as Lucy Warriner
• Cary Grant as Jerry Warriner See more

The film is based on the stage play The Awful Truth by playwright Arthur Richman. In that play, created on September 18, 1922, at the Henry … See more

Gross box office receipts for The Awful Truth were more than $3 million ($64 million in 2023 dollars). The film made a profit of $500,000 … See more

Dunne, Grant, and Bellamy performed scenes from The Awful Truth on the Hollywood Hotel radio program on CBS on October 15, 1937.
The Awful Truth was presented as a one-hour radio program on three occasions on Lux Radio Theatre See more