Over the course of earning a degree in Cinema Studies, I’ll be honest with you; I hardly ever got to watch the kind of movies that I liked. Call me lowbrow if you must, but remember, I’m talking about my university years, and getting up at eight AM to watch Berlin: Symphony of a Great City wasn’t the best way to nurse a hangover. Don’t get me wrong, I learned plenty and I was happy for the chance to see intellectually challenging films — I just didn’t always have that much fun. That is until I signed up for Classic Hollywood Cinema, and finally I got my chance to watch movies like Leo McCarey’s The Awful Truth and pretend I was studying. The great Jean Renoir once said, “[Leo] McCarey understands people – perhaps better than anyone else in Hollywood.”, and Truth is a great example of McCarey’s way with a character. The screwball romance centered on two ‘gay divorcees’ by the names of Jerry and Lucy Warriner (played by Cary Grant and Irene Dunne ) who only realize how much they mean to each other after they have gotten divorced
Original Source Scenes We Love: The Awful Truth