When I identified the need for an Ina Claire biography earlier this month, little did I know that the Metropolitan Playhouse was reviving her 1922 Broadway success The Awful Truth, by Arthur Richman.
It was master antique clock restorer John Metcalfe who told me about the revival. He’s incredibly on top of such things.
In 1929 Claire repeated her success in the talkie adaptation. You haven’t seen it–it’s lost.
You may have seen the 1937 film remake.
But you haven’t read the play unless you’ve gone to the Library for the Performing Arts and read the stage manager’s typescript–it was never published.
But it holds the stage at the Metropolitan through October 18.