Libeled Lady

Libeled Lady
Theatrical Film Poster
Directed byJack Conway
Written byWallace Sullivan
Screenplay byMaurine Dallas Watkins
Howard Emmett Rogers
George Oppenheimer
Produced byLawrence Weingarten
StarringJean Harlow
William Powell
Myrna Loy
Spencer Tracy
Walter Connolly
CinematographyNorbert Brodine
Edited byFrederick Y. Smith
Music byWilliam Axt
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • October 9, 1936 (1936-10-09)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$603,000[1]
Box office$2,723,000[1]

Libeled Lady is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Jack Conway and starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. It was written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan, and Maurine Dallas Watkins. This was the fifth of fourteen films in which Powell and Loy were teamed, inspired by their success in the Thin Man series.

Libeled Lady was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was remade in 1946 as Easy to Wed with Esther Williams, Van Johnson, and Lucille Ball.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.