Libeled Lady (1936)

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You know, screwball comedy can be hard to make work. It requires a delicate touch in pacing and finding a balance between the grounded hero and the insane characters orbiting around them. An incomprehensible plot, or one that is filled with improbabilities isn’t really an issue since that seems pretty average for the territory. That a film could star so many stars and still not wind up a classic... read more

Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. When it is filed a 5 million dollars claim by Connie Allenbury for having printed she is a marriage-breaker, he organizes the unconsummated marriage of Gladys and the don Juan Bill Chandler. The goal is to catch Connie alone with a married man.