The Awful Truth (1925 film)
{{short description|1925 film by Paul Powell}}
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{{infobox film
| name = The Awful Truth
| image = The Awful Truth (1925) - 1.jpg
| caption = Still showing the reconciliation
| director = Paul Powell
| producer = Peninsula Studios
Elmer Harris
| based_on = {{based on|The Awful Truth
1922 play|Arthur Richman}}
| writer = Elmer Rice
| starring = Agnes Ayres
Warner Baxter
| music =
| cinematography = Joseph A. DuBray
| editing =
| distributor = Producers Distributing Corporation
| released = {{Film date|1925|4|6}}
| runtime = 6 reels; 5,917
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
The Awful Truth is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Paul Powell and released by the Producers Distributing Corporation. It is based on a 1922 play, The Awful Truth, by Arthur Richman. Agnes Ayres stars in this silent film version of the play.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=2667 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Awful Truth] It was remade in 1937 as the talkie The Awful Truth.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: The Awful Truth |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=21 |issue=6 |pages=61 |date=2 May 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald21unse/page/n724/mode/1up |access-date=25 January 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} Lucy suspects her husband Norman of indiscretions of which he is not guilty and secures a divorce. However, she knows that Norman loves her and she loves him. One night he finds his bride on the fire escape in her night clothes with a wealthy old bachelor who is known to be infatuated with Lucy. He takes the scene as a shock, not waiting to learn the truth that she had taken refuge on the fire escape due to a fire. Lucy, unhappy, has been asked to marry Danny, a callow youth with a fortune. She becomes engaged to him, but his curious aunt determines to air the scandal surrounding the divorcee. Lucy thus must make it appear that nothing stands between her and Norman so that the aunt will not believe there was a scandal. She asks Norman to come to the winter resort where they are spending the months, and he comes out of curtesy. To carry out the plan they join as a team on the toboggan run. The toboggan upsets, sending both into the snow wrapped in each other's arms. The warm embrace shows Norman "the awful truth," that both had been faithful until the last in their marriage.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Agnes Ayres as Lucy Satterlee
- Warner Baxter as Norman Satterlee
- Winifred Bryson as Josephine Trent
- Phillips Smalley as Rufus Kempster
- Carrie Clark Ward as Mrs. Julia Leeson
- Raymond Lowney as Danny Leeson
- William Worthington as Jonathan Sims
}}
Preservation
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0015589|The Awful Truth}}
- {{TCMDb title|id=491625}}
- {{AFI film|2667}}
- [http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/image/22687 Still with Warner Baxter and Agnes Ayres]
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Category:American silent feature films
Category:American films based on plays
Category:Films directed by Paul Powell (director)
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Producers Distributing Corporation films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Surviving American silent films
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