Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott

That delightful couple fromThe Awful Truth, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, revisit the world of marital confusion. Presuming his wife to be dead, Grant remarries--on the same day that his bedraggled spou...( read more  read more... )se (that's Dunne) returns. Seems she's been stranded on a desert island for seven years (with strapping hunk Randolph Scott, too). The moment Cary spots his resurrected wife, as an elevator door slides shut, is one of the many funny gags in this comedy, and the final sequence is memorably wacky. Awful Truth director Leo McCarey prepared the film, but it was directed by author Garson Kanin. The two stars are so adept at farce, and so effortless in conveying their characters' mutual affection, that the movie triumphs over the whopper of a plot device. It was supposed to be remade as the ill-fated Marilyn Monroe film Something's Got to Give, and ended up Move Over, Darling with Doris Day.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 28 min.

Directed by: Garson Kanin

Release Date: May 17, 1940

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DVD Release Date: June 1, 2004

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  • July 12, 2007
    i liked this one better than "the awful truth", although i don't know why...maybe it's simply the premise appeals to some wacked out sense of comedy i've got somewhere in my attic
  • May 9, 2009
    Irene Dunne is loveably troublesome.
  • December 25, 2007
    A personal favorite.
  • January 23, 2007
    Pure comedy gold. Grant and Dunne team up again for this hilarious comedy about a man who remarries after his wife is reported missing at sea. Everything is fine until the first wife is found by the coast guard and turns her husband's life into a wreck. Cary is in usual good for...( read more)m, but it's Irene Dunne who makes the picture. She is delightful as the former wife who comes back. Great comedy.

    Nick: "The moment I saw you I knew.."
    Eve: "I bet you say that to all your wives".
  • February 15, 2009
    Very witty and fun film in which the caste, Irene Dunne especially, are very good
  • October 8, 2008
    Hilarious. Grant and Dunne at their charming best.
  • September 4, 2008
    My favorite music
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    rock is also good though :]

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