Academy Awards, USA 1937
| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture |
MGM
Directed by Jack Conway
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Newspaper editor Spencer Tracy hires scam artist William Powell to get the paper out of a libel suit after printing a false story about heiress Myrna Loy. The concoct a scheme to trap her in a compromising situation while crossing the Atlantic by ship. Powell needs a wife, and Tracy agrees to allow his fiance Jean Harlow to marry him to carry out the plan. Well, everything goes wrong: Powell falls in love with Loy, Harlow falls in love with Powell and Tracy is left with the lawsuit. Of course it all works out in the end. Fast-paced and worth a few chuckles, Powell's fishing scene is a stand-out, a good time killer but hardly best picture material.
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