

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Cinema Classics Seminar: THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 09:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Wednesday, January 28, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm  
Instructor: Jennifer Fleeger, Ph.D., Montclair State University

Leo McCarey’s THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937) was an enormous success for Columbia Pictures, receiving six Oscar nominations and setting off a three-picture collaboration between Cary Grant and co-star Irene Dunne. And as with many American screwball comedies, this one has a great deal to say about class, gender, and changing expectations of marriage.  

The seminar will explore McCarey’s relationship to these themes, from his work in silent-era slapstick to his tendency to film stories of romantic do-overs. We’ll discuss the development of the Cary Grant persona and McCarey’s role in nurturing it, as well as the conditions that enabled its popularity. We’ll talk about what makes for good screen chemistry, nodding to the history of these particular actors as well as to film theorists who philosophize the visibility of feeling.  

We’ll also explore earlier attempts to adapt Arthur Richman’s original play and connect the success of this film to other comedic divorce narratives of the 1930s and, paradoxically, to McCarey’s rather messy approach to script development. We’ll discuss poor Ralph Bellamy, ever the third wheel. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we will conclude with a brief sojourn into the history of dogs in American screen comedy, a journey which, much like the behavior of Grant and Dunne in THE AWFUL TRUTH, returns the cinema to its vaudevillian roots.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bryn-mawr/cinema-classics-seminar-the-awful-truth-1937/200029352849324
- **Event Categories**: workshops, entertainment, comedy, art, theatre, dog
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bryn Mawr
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Bryn Mawr Film Institute
- **lat**: 40.021544857033
- **long**: -75.319098988988
- **full address**: Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 828 W Lancaster Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-3254, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 828 W Lancaster Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-3254, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Bryn Mawr Film Institute
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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