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4 unusual facts about Libeled Lady


Libeled Lady

Cora Witherspoon as Mrs. Burns-Norvell, a talkative acquaintance of the Allenburys

Libeled Lady is a 1936 screwball comedy film starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy, written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan, and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway.

Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy), the managing editor, turns in desperation to former reporter and suave ladies' man Bill Chandler (William Powell) for help.

It received an Academy Award nomination as Best Picture in 1937, but lost to The Great Ziegfeld, which also starred William Powell and Myrna Loy.


Wife vs. Secretary

The picture was the second time that year that Harlow and Loy worked together, also both appearing during 1936 in Libeled Lady also starring William Powell and Spencer Tracy, with Harlow billed first.


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