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The Awful Truth is a 1929 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Ina Claire and Henry Daniell. It was distributed by Pathé Exchange. The screenplay was written by Horace Jackson and Arthur Richman, based on a play by Richman. Ina Claire starred in the original stage version on Broadway in 1922. The film is now considered lost.




Plot summary






Cast


Ina Claire as Lucy Warriner
Henry Daniell as Jerry Warriner
Theodore von Eltz as Edgar Trent
Paul Harvey as Dan Leeson
Blanche Friderici as Mrs. Leeson
Judith Vosselli as Josephine Trent
John Roche as Jimmy Kempster




Other versions


There were two other film versions of the play on which the 1929 film was based: the 1925 silent version The Awful Truth with Agnes Ayres and Warner Baxter; and the 1937 film The Awful Truth starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The play was also remade unsuccessfully in color as the musical Let's Do It Again (1953), starring Jane Wyman and Ray Milland.




See also


List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)




References






External links


The Awful Truth at IMDb
The Awful Truth at AllMovie
The Awful Truth at the TCM Movie Database
The Awful Truth at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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