Libeled Lady, 1936 ( Grade B+)

Director: Jack Conway
Awards: Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture
Starring: Jean Harlow; Spencer Tracy, William Powell, Myrna Loy

sez says: This is a fun movie--and one I'd never heard of before,  Tracy & Powell have chemistry as two at-odds newspapermen who need each other to get out of their respective trouble (Powell needs money -- Tracy needs to stop a law suit against his paper)  Tracy hires Powell to frame Myra Loy (who is suing the paper) In the mean time Harlow is waiting impatiently for Tracy to keep his promise to marry her --but she is needed for the scam, so she has to marry Powell (just for the week, then she can go to Reno, get a divorce and marry Tracy).  Of course Powell falls in love with Loy --etc.  The plot is fun, but rather predictable. What makes the movie is the script itself and the bantering way Powell and Tracy go at it. Harlow is really not much of an actor--she is brassy and obvious-but they sure dressed her up in some wild 1930's fashions for this movie!  Loy holds her own with the boys--but it is the boys movie--and well worth watching.