sentences:  After the success of "The Awful Truth" McCarey could have become, like Frank Capra , a Columbia contract director with a certain independence, but went his own way, selling the story that would become "The Cowboy And The Lady" to Sam Goldwyn and moving to RKO for three films.A car accident in 1940 prevented him from directing his production of "My Favorite Wife," a kind of follow up to "The Awful Truth" with the same two stars, so it was turned over to Garson Kanin though McCarey worked on some of the editing.McCarey was a devout Roman Catholic and deeply concerned with social issues.