Mjeteconer Just perfect...

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

dsmith6068 Given the nature of the "marriage" of Harlow and Powell characters, a Reno divorce shouldn't have been necessary. A fast and simple annulment on the grounds that the marriage was never consummated or ever intended to be real. That would end the problem at the end of who was married to whom.

richspenc Spencer Tracy is managing editor of New York newspaper that gets sued by Myrna Loy, daughter of rich tycoon Walter Ganolly. Spencer's wife to be Jean Harlow is getting very restless about getting married already, to the point of bursting into the newspaper office in her wedding gown screaming at Spencer "today I am getting married!" This scene is a very close parallel to the scene of the 1948 remake of this film "Easy to wed" with Kenan Wynn in the Spencer role and Lucille Ball in the Harlow role. A lot of the same lines were copied there such as "this newspaper is facing a libel suit", "and you're facing a breach of promise suit!" and "nobody talks to me like a house detective!". Also, I'm quite sure the senior manager of the paper that yells "get this woman outta here!" is played by the same guy. At least this film doesn't have Harlow carried out of the office by bouncers while screaming like with Ball in the remake. I found that a little too much. William Powell plays the man Spencer is searching for to help get the newspaper out of its bind. Spencer calls San Francisco, Reno, Atlanta, and ven Hong Kong and Australia trying to find him, and he ends up being at a hotel in town. Things in real life are like that sometimes, you search everywhere but under your nose, which is where it turns up. Powell must be staged to marry Harlow, with some amusing scenes where Harlow and Powell must fake their love to avoid suspicion. Also funny when Harlow kisses Spencer in front of the priest. "They're old friends", Powell tells the bewildered priest. Harlow and Spencer kiss again. "Really old friends" Powell then says. Powell then meets up with Myrna Loy and her dad Ganolly on a transAtlantic ship where he must continue the charade. Powell asks a ship clerk to bring him some encyclopedias so he can learn about what the guy he's pretending to be is supposed to know, such as about trout fishing. So then he can discuss his "life hobbies" to Ganolly. Of course today, one wouldn't ask for encyclopedias to learn information about something, they'd just google it on their smartphone. This overbearing woman and her daughter keep clinging to Powell, Loy, and Ganolly, and they must keep lying in order to avoid them. Many of these scenes just mentioned were copied in "Easy to wed". I love Esther Williams, but "Easy to wed" wasn't one of her better films. "Liabel lady" was the better of the two. There are more great scenes, such as the lake trip with Powell and Myrna. This is another film with Powell and Myrna together just like in the wonderful "The great Ziegfeld" and "The thin man". Those two had fabulous chemistry together. Myrna Loy's such a cute sweetheart of a girl, just like Ruby Keeler. Powell is sort of a ladies' man. He has both Harlow and Loy falling for him in this film. I won't spoil the ending in this review.

Steve Downs We all have our biases concerning favorite actors and actresses. The more of I see of Myrna Loy and William Powell, the more they impress me, and Libeled Lady doesn't disappoint. However, I feel Spencer Tracy was miscast; I didn't find him very funny in this movie. And as for Jean Harlow, she was at times amusing, but after awhile her overacting got under my skin. I agree with one reviewer that at times she was behaving like a gangster's moll. However, her evolving relationship with Powell was a nice twist. The middle section where William Powell goes fishing was a refreshing change of pace, especially with the outdoor setting, though his ineptness was a bit over the top. I wonder if they derived some inspiration for the fishing sequences from Buster Keaton's 1923 short, The Balloonatic. For me, the scenes with Loy and Powell were by far the most satisfying. I doubt he has an equal in delivering witty lines oozing with biting sarcasm. I strongly disagree with many of the reviews rating this one of the greatest romantic comedies ever, even comparing it to My Man Godfrey. While that movie had one of the most satisfying endings I've ever seen (with Powell delivering a surprising, brutally honest, assessment of the family he's been working for), the ending to Libeled Lady is a dreadful contrived mess that attempts to dismiss rather difficult complications in noisy, albeit trivial, fashion (as if they had no idea how to end it). Nevertheless, it's well worth the watch to see William Powell in top form.

rbrb This movie is over 70 years old but is far better than what mostly comes out of the film industry these days. The picture is genuinely funny and all the performers are excellent. In brief a newspaper who have libeled a lady need to get her legal action against them stopped to prevent the newspaper going out of business so they devise a plot to set up their victim. There are all sorts of comical twists and turns and plenty of good gags and amusing moments. The movie is very well directed, has an excellent script and the voters here on IMDb have got the high mark exactly right. Well done to Turner Classic Movies for showing this on their channel:8/10