History Film / TrueConfession

Helen Bartlett (Lombard) is an aspiring writer who has one problem: she’s a pathological liar, and in all her endeavours to help her husband, Ken, she always makes matters worse. Ken’s law firm is struggling to find clients, so they’re broke, but under no circumstances does he want his wife to work. Helen, on the other hand, knows that they need more money, so she goes behind Ken's back to get a secretarial job with an old friend of the family, Otto Krayler. The only problem is that Otto is murdered, and Helen becomes the prime suspect.

* CassandraTruth: Helen has lied so many times before that when she earnestly says that she didn’t kill her would-be employer, Ken doesn’t believe her at all.
* DeadpanSnarker: Helen’s friend, Daisy (played by Una Merkel).

* FacialTic: Helen has one that signals she's come up with a whopper.

* StraightMan: Ken to Helen’s absolute craziness.

* ShirtlessScene: [=MacMurray=] spends some time in his tiny swim trucks with not shirt on during the lake scenes.

Screwball [[HilarityEnsues hijinks ensue]] as Ken decides to be Helen’s defence lawyer even though she didn’t commit the crime, and a man, Charley (JohnBarrymore), becomes strangely invested in their lives.

''True Confession'' (1937) is a Creator/{{Paramount}} ScrewballComedy starring Creator/CaroleLombard and Fred [=MacMurray=], their last screen pairing. Notable for being Lombard’s last Paramount film before becoming a free agent, a rarity in the studio dominated industry.

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''True Confession'' (1937) is a Creator/{{Paramount}} ScrewballComedy starring Creator/CaroleLombard and Fred [=MacMurray=]. Notable for being Lombard’s last Paramount film before becoming a free agent, a rarity in the studio dominated industry.

Screwball [[HilarityEnsues hijinks ensue]] as Ken decides to be Helen’s defense lawyer even though she didn’t commit the crime, and a man, Charley (JohnBarrymore), becomes strangely invested in their lives.

* BadLiar: Helen's whoppers are almost always discovered.

* PoliceAreUseless: The detective that interviews Helen doesn’t realize that she’s obviously a compulsive liar, and he only wants to get a confession.

* ShirtlessScene: [=MacMurray=] spends some time in his tiny swim trucks, with not shirt one, during the lake scenes.

* WeaponForIntimidation: Charley pulls out a gun to try and get his blackmail ruse to work, but it accidently pops open, and it’s shown to be a cigarette holder.

* IdleRich: The Bartletts become this after Helen profits off the publicized murder trail, and Ken becomes a recognized lawyer.

''True Confession'' (1937) is a Main/ParamountPictures ScrewballComedy starring Creator/CaroleLombard and Fred [=MacMurray=]. Notable for being Lombard’s last Paramount film before becoming a free agent, a rarity in the studio dominated industry.

Helen Bartlett (Lombard) is an aspiring writer who has one problem: she’s a pathological liar, and in all her endeavours to help her husband, Ken, she always makes matters worse. Ken’s law firm is struggling to find clients, so they’re broke, but under no circumstances does he want his wife to work. Helen, on the other hand, knows that they need more money, so she goes behind her husbands back to get a secretarial job with an old friend of the family, Otto Krayler. The only problem is that Otto is murdered, and Helen becomes the prime suspect.

''True Confession'' (1937) is a Main/ParamountPictures ScrewballComedy starring Creator/CaroleLombard and Fred [=MacMurray=]. Notable for being Lombard’s last Paramount film before becoming a free agent; a rarity in the studio dominated industry.

* FalseConfession: ZigZagged: Helen confesses multiple times to the crime just because she likes making up stories and enjoys thinking up of various motives she could have even though ''she didn’t commit the murder''. The police man just wants someone to arrest.

* BadLiar: Helen almost always gets caught in a whopper.

* BadLiar: Helen always gets caught in her lies.

* {{Blackmail}}: Charley knows that Helen didn’t kill Otto; he has Otto’s wallet and is the real killer. She he threatens to tell the police that Helen committed perjury if they don’t give him $30,000.

* FalseConfession: ZigZagged: Helen confesses multiple times to the crime just because she likes making up stories and enjoys thinking up of various motives she could have even though ‘’she didn’t commit the murder’’. The
* IdleRich: The Bartletts become this after Helen’s profiting off the publicised murder trail.

''True Confession'' (1937) is a Creator/ParamountPictures ScrewballComedy starring Creator/CaroleLombard and Fred [=MacMurray=]. Notable for being Lombard’s last Paramount film before becoming a free agent; a rarity in the studio dominated industry.

[[caption-width-right:350:Please, don't say anything!]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Please, don't say anything more...]]

Screwball [[HilarityEnsues hijinks ensue]] as Ken decides to be Helen’s defense lawyer even though she didn’t commit the crime and a man, Charley (JohnBarrymore), becomes strangely invested in their lives.