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Film · MGM · 1936

Libeled Lady

Name: Libeled Lady scores 39 — Live Historic
Item: Libeled Lady
Rating: 39
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39Leave it.

The newspaper's lie is the scheme, and the real attachments barely survive it.

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The review

An editor's paper libels an heiress, and his way out of the lawsuit is to lend his fiancée to another man as a pretend wife. Harlow, Powell, Loy, Tracy, a big comic cast and a solid hit. A house can watch it. I tracked the tangle because those four are easy to sit with. The plan itself is cheap.

The lie is the scheme. Real attachments survive it, barely, and the joke is the tangle. Barely is the honest word, so I won't decorate it. A fiancée is not something you lend out to beat a suit, even when the room is laughing. The paper built a false marriage instead of eating what it printed. I can watch the scramble. I won't call it clever at our table.

Journal

Keep Libeled Lady in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Ninotchka

51 instead of 39

Ninotchka is still a comedy film, and it scores 51 instead of 39. What you gain is piety: Orders forbade a hat; wanting one means she stops obeying them.

The eight

6
Industry
A newspaper's job starts the mess by libeling an heiress.
5
Household
He lends his fiancée as a pretend wife, and the real ties barely hold.
2
Piety
Nobody stops the scheme; beating the suit matters more than the lie.
4
Courage
They risk the real attachments to dodge what the paper already printed.
4
Republic
A libel suit is the public debt, and the editor schemes to get around it.
3
Temperance
The joke is the tangle, so the next lie is there to keep you in it.
3
Truth
The lie is the scheme, and the attachments survive it only barely.
4
Stewardship
The couples remain, barely, which is all the scheme leaves standing.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1951

A Streetcar Named Desire

39Leave it.

Adult, and too many men wanted to be the husband. That is reason enough to skip it.

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The review

She has already lost the family estate when she shows up at her sister's in New Orleans. She still wants to be someone the world bows to. The husband is force, and the house is his. A sister is caught between them. I knew that shape, and it still sat badly.

There is sexual cruelty near the end. I will not describe it. This is not a family evening. A lot of men wanted to be that husband, and that fact sits on the film heavier than the acting. It tells the truth about force and about a gentility that cannot pay its way. It also recruited. I can grant the first and still leave it off the shelf.

Journal

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