Libeled Lady
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| Directed by | Jack Conway |
| Produced by | Lawrence Weingarten |
| Written by | George Oppenheimer Howard Emmett Rogers Wallace Sullivan Maurine Dallas Watkins |
| Starring | Jean Harlow William Powell Myrna Loy Spencer Tracy Walter Connolly |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Language | English |
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Libeled Lady is a 1936 comedy film starring Jean Harlow and William Powell (who were romantically involved at the time), and Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. The movie was written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway.
Libeled Lady was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
[edit] Synopsis
After she is falsely accused of breaking up a marriage, the wealthy Connie Allenbury (Loy) sues the New York Evening Star newspaper for libel. Warren Haggerty (Tracy), the chief editor, comes up with a scheme to avoid paying damages. He arranges for his long-suffering fiancée, Gladys Benton (Harlow), to marry a former reporter, lady's man Bill Chandler (Powell). He pays Chandler to romance Miss Allenbury so that he can catch her red-handed, alone with a married man, and force her to drop the lawsuit. Complications arise when Chandler and Allenbury actually fall in love, and Benton decides that she prefers her suave "husband" to the marriage-averse newspaperman.
[edit] Cast
- Jean Harlow as Gladys Benton
- William Powell as Bill Chandler
- Myrna Loy as Connie Allenbury
- Spencer Tracy as Warren Haggerty
- Walter Connolly as James B. Allenbury
- Charley Grapewin as Hollis Bane
- Cora Witherspoon as Mrs. Burns-Norvell
- E.E. Clive as Evans
- Bunny Beatty as Babs Burns-Norvell
- Otto Yamaoka as Ching
- Charles Trowbridge as Graham
- Spencer Charters as the Magistrate
- George Chandler as the Bellhop
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