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The Truth Game is a comedy play by the British writer Ivor Novello, first staged in 1928.

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In 1932 Novello went to Hollywood to adapt the play for MGM as But the Flesh Is Weak . In 1941 the studio produced a remake Free and Easy . [1]

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  1. Goble p.438

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