The trials and tribulations of a stern but lovable father and his family in New York City in the 1880's.

The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce. His girl Friday: A newspaper editor and his ex-wife star reporter exchange verbal insults in his effort to keep her on the job by offering her a prison story scoop. The talk of the town: A suspected murderer hides out with an unsuspecting professor and his landlady, and...