Screwball’s Tabloid Trouble: Commentary on Libeled Lady (1936 film)

Film Society of Screwball Comedy (FSOSC.org) founder Aliece Pickett and Lauren Wolfer discuss this satire on the Tabloid press, and the sumptuous Cedric Gibbons’ Art Deco sets in the Screwball Comedy: Libeled Lady (1936 film). The film stars Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy; director Jack Conway; and screenplay by Maurine Dallas Watkins and Howard Emmett Rogers.
Sources:
MGM Style, Cedric Gibbons and the Art of the Golden Age of Hollywood, by Howard Gutner (LP Lyons Press 2019).
Bombshell, The Life and Death of Jean Harlow, by David Stenn (Doubleday, 1993).
Spencer Tracy, a Biography, by James Curtis (Knopf, 2011).
“I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby” (1928) Jimmy McHugh (music), Dorothy Fields (lyrics); performed by Vaughn De Leath (1928).
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