Sunday Afternoons at the Paradise

Sunday, March 29 @ 1:30 p.m. Purchase your tickets here!

My Favorite Wife (1940)

Director: Garson Kanin.  Run Time: 88 min.  Starring: Ann Shoemaker, Cary Grant, Gail Patrick, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott

A funny thing happens to newlywed Nick Arden on his way to the honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife who was lost at sea seven years ago and presumed dead. All aboard for a spinning marriage-go-round!

Cary Grant and Irene Dunne reunite in this fast, fizzy screwball comedy about a woman presumed dead who returns home to find her husband newly remarried. Packed with mistaken identities, romantic chaos, and razor-sharp timing, My Favorite Wife shows why Grant and Dunne were one of classic Hollywood’s most beloved comedy pairings.

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The Awful Truth (1937)

Director: Leo McCarey.  Run Time: 91 min.  Starring: Alexander D’Arcy, Cary Grant, Cecil Cunningham, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other’s attempts to find new romance.

One of the great screwball comedies of the 1930s, The Awful Truth stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a divorcing couple who can’t quite stay out of each other’s lives. Elegant, witty, and endlessly charming, the film crackles with verbal sparring and comic invention – and cemented Grant and Dunne as a perfectly matched on-screen duo.