Movies like The Awful Truth
12 films like The Awful Truth (1937), Theodora Goes Wild, My Favorite Wife, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town among them. They're picked by what the story is about and what each shares with The Awful Truth: its director, cast, franchise or setting.
1937 · 91 min · Comedy, Romance. Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner both do their best to ruin each other's plans for remarriage, Jerry to haughty socialite Molly Lamont, she to oil-rich bumpkin Daniel Leeson. Among their strategies: Jerry's…
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Theodora Goes Wild
Also stars Irene DunneThe small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book…
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My Favorite Wife
Also stars Irene Dunne and Cary GrantMissing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the very day that her husband remarries.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Also comedy and romanceA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
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Penny Serenade
Also stars Cary Grant and Irene DunneA couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unforeseen sadness and unexpected joy.
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Holiday
Also stars Cary GrantA young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.
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Love Affair
Also directed by Leo McCarey · Also stars Irene DunneA French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.
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His Girl Friday
Also stars Cary Grant and Ralph BellamyWhen a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
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If I Had a Million
Also comedyA dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Also comedy and romanceA couple who have been married for three years are shocked to learn that their marriage is not legally valid.
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Meet John Doe
Also comedy and romanceA penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
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Make Way for Tomorrow
Also directed by Leo McCareyAn elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
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Hands Across the Table
Also stars Ralph BellamyA loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.
