The Contenders:
Leo McCarey: The Awful Truth (winner)
Sidney Franklin: The Good Earth
William Dieterle: The Life of Emile Zola
Gregory La Cava: Stage Door
William Wellman: A Star is Born
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Divorce for Fun and Profit
Film: The Awful Truth
Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on kick-ass portable DVD player
I suppose it makes a certain amount of sense that movies from the heart of the Great Depression would be about people with more money than sense in general. That’s certainly the case for many of the screwball comedies, at the very least. We see people who can focus on the silly business of living because, unlike the bulk of the audience, they aren’t currently focused on the more critical business of having enough food to make it through another day. This is certainly the case with The Awful Truth, a film that really more than any other launched Cary Grant’s career in light comedies.
Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on kick-ass portable DVD player
Jerry Warriner (Grant) has been pretending to be in Florida, and is at his club faking a tan so that he’ll look the part when he gets home. When he does, he discovers that his wife Lucy (Irene Dunne) is nowhere to be found. She strolls in not much later with her vocal coach, Armand Duvalle (Alexander D’Arcy), claiming that due to a broken down car, they had to spend the night in a cheap inn. While he’s indignant at first, it lasts only until she discovers that the oranges he brought back with him from “Florida” are actually from California, and the accusations start going in both directions.
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