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Screwball Comedies: Cary Grant The Awful Truth

Screwball Comedies: Cary Grant The Awful Truth

classified PG

Slapstick Festival 2016

Film

Please note: This was screened in Jan 2016

Director
Leo McCarey
Cast
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy
Details
94 mins, 1937, USA

Bristol’s legendary Cary Grant teams with screwball comedy’s most underrated actress, Irene Dunne, in the film that helped in break through as a romantic lead. Named as the ‘slapstick prince charming’ by critic Pauline Kael for his marriage of elegance and physical comedy, Grant stars in the definitive, Oscar® winning comedy of the 1930s. Leo McCarey, a veteran of slapstick comedy (Sherlock Jr., Duck Soup), directs this vaudeville team.

Introduced by stand-up comedian Lucy Porter.

In partnership with the Cary Grant Comes Home for the Weekend Festival.


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