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

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Synopsis

The wealthy Connie Allenbury (Loy) sues the New York Evening Star newspaper for libel, for falsely accusing her of breaking up a marriage. Warren Haggerty (Tracy), the chief editor, comes up with a scheme to avoid paying damages. He arranges for his long-suffering fiancée, Gladys Benton (Harlow), to marry a former reporter, lady's man Bill Chandler (Powell). He pays Chandler to romance Miss Allenbury so that he can catch her red-handed, alone with a married man, and force her to drop the lawsuit. Complications arise when Chandler and Allenbury actually fall in love, and Benton decides that she prefers her suave "husband" to the marriage-averse newspaperman.

Trivia

*In real life, Harlow and Powell were very much romantically involved.

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