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  1. Arthur Richman. Writer: The Awful Truth. Playwright and Hollywood screenwriter Arthur Richman was born in New York City on April 16, 1886 to William and Janice (or Jennie) Reichman. His father, a native of Fürth, Bavaria, became a successful merchant after coming to America in the mid 1870s at around the age of twenty.

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  2. Sep 26, 2015 · The play, a comedy by Arthur Richman, is from 1922, and it gives us a woman, Lucy Warriner (Alexandra O’Daly), who is everything we might associate with a later, “liberated” time: divorced,...

  3. In 1921, Arthur Richman scored his first stage triumph with a romantic comedy about a second marriage, and challenge the play throws down still strikes a resonant chord. Divorced New York socialite Lucy Warriner plans to tie the knot again: this time to Oklahoma oil man Dan Leeson.

  4. The Awful Truth is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Leo McCarey, and starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Based on the 1922 play The Awful Truth by Arthur Richman, the film recounts a distrustful rich couple who begin divorce proceedings, only to interfere with one another's romances.

    • over $3 million ($61 million in 2022 dollars)
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    • $600,000 ($12.2 million in 2022 dollars)
  5. Joseph Walker. Associate producer. Everett Riskin. Editing by. Al Clark. In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other’s infidelities, resolve to file for divorce.

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  6. The Awful Truth: a comedy in three acts. Names. Richman, Arthur, 1886-1944 (Author) Collection. Billy Rose Theatre Collection scripts. Plays. Dates / Origin. Date Created: 1922 (Questionable) Library locations.

  7. But circumstances keep bringing Jerry and Lucy back together as the calendar pages to their divorce flip by. Originally a 1922 stage hit penned by Arthur Richman, The Awful Truth was adapted twice to film in 1925 and 1929 and re-made in 1953 as Let's Do It Again.

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