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The Awful Truth (1937) More at IMDbPro »

• Much of the film was improvised by director Leo McCarey and the cast during filming each day.
  
  
• Tay Garnett turned down an offer to direct the movie.
  
  
• Cary Grant was so convinced this film was not working, he begged to released during production. The film turned out to be a big hit.
  
  
• Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies of All Time" in 2006.
  
  
• The dog playing Mr. Smith in ‘The Awful Truth’ was in ‘The Thin Man’ movies as Asta.
  
  
• Previously made twice, first as a silent film - The Awful Truth (1925), and then as an early talking film - The Awful Truth (1929). Later remade by Columbia Pictures as Let's Do It Again (1953) with Jane Wyman and Ray Milland.
  
  
• Adapted from a Broadway play. The original stage production of "The Awful Truth" opened on Sept. 18, 1922 at Henry Miller's Theatre in New York and ran for 144 performances.
  
  
• It was in this film that Irene Dunne first utters the name 'Jerry The Nipper' implying that Grant's character was often fond of a stiff drink or two. The following year in Bringing Up Baby (1938), in the scene when they're all in the 'lock up' 'Katherine Hepburn' says "Haven't you heard of Jerry The Nipper?" To which Grant replies that "She's making it up out of Motion Pictures she's seen".
  
  

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