True Confession is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, and John Barrymore.

Returning with her friend Daisy McClure to retrieve her property, Helen is deciding whether to enter the unlocked front door, when police arrive, having learned of a murder.

Soon, the money turns out not to be missing after all, but oddly, a gun is found in a search of the Bartlett home and the criminologist (erroneously) declares it fired the 2 bullets that killed the deceased.

Greene found the film to be "constructed firmly and satisfactorily on human nature" and asserted that "the picture succeeds in being funny from beginning to end".

[1] Hollywood film studios Production Code Administration director Joseph Breen registered a complaint with Paramount Pictures, charging the filmmakers with encouraging a licentious attitude towards the court system.

In particular, True Confession was deemed to present perjury (as exhibited by Carole Lombard's character Helen Bartlett), as an evasion of "the processes of law" and of depicting legal scenes that were a "travesty on the courts and the administration of justice."

Paramount was given authorization to release True Confession when Will H. Hays, president of the MPPDA, allowed that the overall "farcical" character of the film - a screwball comedy - was sufficient to offset the "flippant portrayal of the courts of justice.