The Awful Truth
Danger! Wild woman on the loose!
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
- Director
- Leo McCarey
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $3M
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Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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Box Office & Release
The Awful Truth returned 5.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $600,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $3M
- Release date
- Oct 21, 1937
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, French
- Country
- United States of America
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