Libeled Lady Summary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Conway
Genres: Comedy
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Spencer_Tracy, Myrna_Loy, and William_Powell star in this crackling screwball comedy about a cut-throat newspaper editor's scheme to prevent a libel suit that ends up exploding in everybody's face. Tracy plays Warren Haggerty, the managing editor of a newspaper that mistakenly prints a story declaring the rich Connie Allenbury (Myrna_Loy) has stolen away another woman's husband. Connie retaliates by suing the paper for 5 million. This happens right before Warren is about to marry his fiancee Gladys (Jean_Harlow). As he has done several times in the past, Warren delays the wedding in order to stop the libel suit. Warren hires Bill Chandler (William_Powell), a former employer who is desperate for a job, to marry Gladys in name only and then court Connie. That way, Gladys can sue Connie for alienation of affections and get Connie to agree to drop her lawsuit if Gladys will drop hers. Bill hops an ocean liner to accompany Connie and her father (Walter_Connolly) back to the United States, but along the way Bill and Connie fall in love and Bill tries to convince Gladys to drop her suit so it won't hinder his relationship with Connie. Paul Brenner, Rovi
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