Review of Libeled Lady (1936) by Adrian B — 06 Jan 2013
Entertaining comedy in which a newspaper editor (Spencer Tracy) writes an offensive, highly inaccurate article about a woman (Myrna Loy) who stole her husband's fortune. She sues and it screws over himself and his fiancée (Jean Harlow), to whom he delays the wedding of in order concentrate on preventing the suit.
In order to do so though, he arranges for a man (William Powell) to falsely marry his fiancée and then court the wealthy woman, to initiate a new scandal to counteract the original one. Surprisingly funny comment has many nice moments and it is interesting how the stars of "The Thin Man" franchise are found within this film, though they do play the same characters.
Likable performances particularly from Powell and Loy.
This review of Libeled Lady (1936) was written by Adrian B on 06 Jan 2013.
Libeled Lady has generally received very positive reviews.
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