sentences:  Later in 1937, invited to Columbia, McCarey earned his first Academy Award for Best Director for "The Awful Truth", with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, a screwball comedy that launched Cary Grant's unique screen persona, largely concocted by McCarey (Grant copied many of McCarey's mannerisms).Along with the similarity in their names, McCarey and Cary Grant shared a physical resemblance, making mimicking McCarey's intonations and expressions even easier for Grant.As writer/director Peter Bogdanovich notes, "After "The Awful Truth", when it came to light comedy, there was Cary Grant and then everyone else was an also-ran."