* The Awful Truth ( 1937 )

One subgenre of screwball is known as the comedy of remarriage, in which characters divorce and then remarry one another ( The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story ).

The philosopher Stanley Cavell has noted that many classic screwball comedies turn on an interlude in the state of Connecticut ( Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve, The Awful Truth ).

* The Awful Truth ( 1937 ), d. Leo McCarey

The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant.

The Awful Truth marked the first appearance of the uniquely effective light comedy persona used by Cary Grant in almost all his subsequent films, catapulting his career.

In 1996, The Awful Truth was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, having been deemed " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

Director Leo McCarey received an Academy Award for Best Director for The Awful Truth, though McCarey himself regarded Make Way for Tomorrow, which he also directed in 1937, as the more deserving film.

Film Daily named The Awful Truth as one of the 10 Best Films of 1937.

In 1996 The Awful Truth was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, having been deemed " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

* The Awful Truth on Screen Guild Theater: March 17, 1940

* The Awful Truth on Lux Radio Theater: March 10, 1941

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When Slocum does not believe their story, Susan tells him that they are members of " The Leopard Gang "; she refers to herself as " Swingin ' Door Susie " and David as " Jerry the Nipper " ( a name Cary Grant's character was called by Irene Dunne in the movie The Awful Truth, also featuring Asta ).

Grant had just finished shooting his first romantic comedy The Awful Truth and Hawks may have seen a rough cut of the unreleased film.

The terrier George was played by Skippy, most famous for playing Asta in The Thin Man film series ( and co-starring with Grant as Mr. Smith in The Awful Truth ).

In 1937, McCarey won his first Academy Award for Directing for The Awful Truth, with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, a screwball comedy that launched Cary Grant's unique screen persona, largely concocted by McCarey ( Grant also copied many of McCarey's mannerisms ).

As writer / director Peter Bogdanovich notes, " After The Awful Truth, when it came to light comedy, there was Cary Grant and then everyone else was an also-ran.

* The Awful Truth ( 1937 ), also producer

* 1937 The Awful Truth Won Best Director Nominated Outstanding Production

* The Awful Truth ( 1999 – 2000 ) was Michael Moore's second TV show.

Baxter's most notable silent films are probably The Great Gatsby ( 1926 ) and The Awful Truth ( 1925 ).

Astaire was a songwriter of note himself, with " I'm Building Up to an Awful Letdown " ( written with lyricist Johnny Mercer ) reaching number four in the Hit Parade of 1936.

Featuring a more pop-oriented sound, Celebrity Skin was a critical success with strong sales and successful singles, including the title track, " Celebrity Skin ", " Malibu ", and " Awful ".

Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron ( 1931 ), Theodora Goes Wild ( 1936 ), The Awful Truth ( 1937 ), Love Affair ( 1939 ) and I Remember Mama ( 1948 ).

A 2011 UK Horrible Histories tour was planned, The Awful Egyptians, which covered such venues as Grand Opera House, York, New Theatre, Oxford, The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, Manchester Opera House.

It was as the leading character in such plays as the Game of Speculation, My Awful Dad, Cool as a Cucumber, Patter versus Clatter, and Little Toddlekins, that he especially excelled.

A fellow musician, Ted " Kingsize " Taylor, made a crude tape recording of their last New Year's Eve show, at the Star-Club in December 1962 ; a cleaned-up version of the tape was later released as an album, later characterized by Harrison as " Awful.

In a running gag in Concerto for Horn and Hardart and in the introduction to Six Contrary Dances on his Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion album, Schickele inferred from fictional evidence that P. D. Q. Bach had a hollow leg that was considerably longer than the other one.

Maria Monk's book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed was published in January 1836.

Awful Disclosures remained in print for years afterwards and was occasionally revived.

His cartoon, also drawn in 1830, was entitled Awful Changes and depicted an ichthyosaur professor lecturing on a fossilised human skull: " ' You will at once perceive ' continued Professor Ichthyosaurus, ' that the skull before us belonged to some of the lower order of animals ; the teeth are very insignificant, the power of the jaws trifling, and altogether it seems wonderful how the creature could have procured food.

In 1840, he produced " Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington ", which was so successful that he was given a weekly insert in the New York Sun.

The track " We Are Something Awful " is a Laziest Men On Mars song, but was not available on MP3. com at the time of Vivendi's sale of the site to CNET in 2003.

This campaign was replicated across the country and was recounted in an episode of The Awful Truth.

The Awful Truth is a 1922 Broadway play by Arthur Richman which was adapted into several films.

The Awful Truth ( 1999 – 2000 ) is a satirical television show that was directed, written, and hosted by filmmaker Michael Moore, and funded by the British broadcaster Channel 4.

) Depending on the production, there is another musical scene called The Awful Battle of the Pekes and the Pollices where the Jellicles put on a show for their leader.

Dodd appeared in small roles in two movies written by Farrell, the TV production How Awful About Allan starring Anthony Perkins and Julie Harris and What's the Matter with Helen?

For the next twenty years he was very prolific, collaborating on, directing, adapting, or supervising the production of almost 35 silent and " sound " films, including 6 for the Peninsula Studios, Chalk Marks ( 1924 ), The Girl On the Stairs ( 1924 ), The Wise Virgin ( 1924 ), The Awful Truth ( 1925 ), Beauty and The Badman ( 1925 ), and Let Women Alone ( 1925 ), while also writing seven original screenplays of his own.

The company is strongly associated with the world stage premieres of Horrible Histories including Terrible Tudors, Vile Victorians, Ruthless Romans, Awful Egyptians, Frightful First World War, Woeful Second World War and its record-breaking production of Barmy Britain, which is the longest running children's show in West End history.