Liabeled Lady.Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy and William Powell star in this comedy. Even though the Thin Man couple are in this, it’s not a Thin man movie! But it was just as much fun!
Spence publishes an article in his paper about Loy being seen with a married man. The article was proven false and Spencer has to run out on his wedding (he was marrying Harlow) to stop the presses. He does, but not before a handful of copies make it to the streets. Well, Loy is not impressed and decides to sue the paper for 5 million bucks. She is a spoiled rich girl who doesn’t like to be made fun of.
So Spence hires Powell (a man notorious for womanizing – he can get any woman he wants) to marry Harlow (who is Spences fiancé) and then Powell is to go schmooze Loy and have the paper catch them together, thus proving that Loy is a husband stealer and she will drop her claim against the paper.
WOW!
It may seem hard to follow, but it’s really not. It is really enjoyable and you think you may know what happens, but you may be wrong. Heck I was wrong half the time. You think Powell will snatch up Loy in a second eh, well not really! In fact, she doesn’t like him – well, at first, but then something else starts to happen with the fake wedding of Powell and Harlow – all in all this is a really well written movie.
The comedic parts work well, and the dramatic parts too. And the actors are just great in this piece, and Loy and Powell prove they don’t have to be in a Thin Man movie to be great!
4.5/5
J-Man.
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