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Libeled Lady

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Libeled Lady (1936)

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Average Rating:7.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Screwball comedy about a newspaper editor, who tells his reporter (whom he recently canned) to dig up some dirt on an heiress. Why? To coerce her into dropping her multi-million dollar libel suit... Screwball comedy about a newspaper editor, who tells his reporter (whom he recently canned) to dig up some dirt on an heiress. Why? To coerce her into dropping her multi-million dollar libel suit against the tabloid. The plan backfires, however, when the reporter becomes smitten with the libeled lady. [More]

Starring: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy

Starring: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin, Cora Witherspoon, Charles Trowbridge

Director: Jack Conway

Director: Jack Conway
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten
Screenwriter: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer
Composer: William Axt

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Mar 1, 2005

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  • Bill Chandler (William Powell) is one of America's great anglers, a sports fisherman without peer, doom in waders to the wiliest trout. And that isn't the only fish story Chandler tells.
  • Four of Hollywood's greatest stars - Powell, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy - reel in this whopper of a screwball romantic comedy classic nominated for a Best Picture Oscar?.* It all starts when society diva Loy slaps newsman Tracy with a libel suit. Tracy enlists fiancee Harlow and down-on-his-luck Powell in a counter maneuver involving a rigged marriage, a phony seduction, a fabulously funny fishing scene, fisticuffs, broken promises and hearts and eventually, true love for all. This Lady is one fine catch.
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