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The Awful Truth
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5917 feet
Directed by Paul Powell
Cast: Agnes Ayres [Lucy Slatterley], Warner Baxter [Norman Slatterley], Phillips Smalley [Rufus Kempster], Raymond Lowney [Danny Leeson], Winifred Bryson [Josephine Trent], Carrie Clark Ward [Mrs. Leeson], William Worthington [Jonathan Sims]
Peninsula Studios production; distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation. / Produced by [?] Elmer Harris? Scenario by Elmer Harris, from an adaptation by Elmer Harris of the play The Awful Truth by Arthur Richman. Cinematography by Joseph A. Dubray. Presented by Elmer Harris. / © 23 April 1925 by Peninsula Studios [LP21392]. Released 6 April 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as The Awful Truth (1929).
Comedy.
Synopsis: [Exhibitors Herald, 2 May 1925, page ?] Lucy Satterly, suspecting her husband, Norman, of indiscretions of which he is not guilty, secures a divorce. Norman loves her, she knows, and she loves him too. Interim, he has found 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 a fire has forced her to seek shelter on the fire escape. 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 this divorcee. Lucy must make it appear that nothing stands between Norman and her; in order that the aunt will not believe there was a scandal. She asks Norman to the winter resort where they are spending the months. He comes out of courtesy. To carry out the plan they join as a team on a toboggan race. The toboggan upsets sending both into the snow wrapped in each other’s arms. The warm embrace has shown Norman the “awful truth” — that both had been faithful until the last in their marriage.
Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 25 December 2024.
References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 33 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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