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Crappy film

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

A sheer delight, this one is by far the best of the three movies (one of them even re-starring Ty Power) made from this material. The four principals, Ty Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche and Slim Summerville were never handled funnier lines nor more delightful characters. The pace whipped up by director Tay Garnett is movie magic at its fast- moving best. Highly skillful direction is absolutely essential to the success of this film as most of the humor is revived by repeating the same visual and speech gags over and over. Only a really clever and right on top of his game director could get away with a constant repetition of the same gags, let alone make them seem funnier and funnier, but that's exactly what Garnett (a much under-rated director) succeeds in doing here. Needless to say, the re-makes with other directors in the chair (including Robert B. Sinclair, a stage director who found his real home in TV), are not a patch on this movie, the original version.

Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, and Don Ameche star in this fun fast-moving comedy about the press and how they hound celebrities and how it feels when the shoe's on the other foot.Ty is a reporter who tries to catch Loretta, a millionairess who just broke up with a duke or something, and get the story for himself for an exclusive. They don't get along at all. Really, they don't. At least for a while anyway.Costarring George Sanders, Jane Darwell, Walter Catlett and Elisha Cook, Jr. in a small role, it feels like a poor man's "Libeled Lady." But, just because something's unknown doesn't mean it isn't worth watching. This is one of the best Ty/Loretta films they made together and should be watched again and again. And, with Don Ameche as his boss, this is one escapade that's too good to miss.

While watching Love is News, what I wished for was that this film would have been cast and directed by a whole different team. Because I like screwball comedy, it's hard to do, and requires a finesse, a light touch, and a specific feather tone from both director and actors to handle delicate material - like a soufflé - a little bit too heavy- handed, and it falls flat. With the exception of Slim Summerville as the small-town judge, the performances were uniformly bad. None of the very young and green principals knew how to handle comedy - so they just went broad and big - Don Ameche bellowed, Loretta grinned and mugged, and Tyrone Power was over-animated. Of course it was the director's fault - pump it up, give me bigger, bigger. But he was dealing with actors who were not natural comedians, whose charms were more in smaller gestures. I kept dreaming of the usual stable who could handle the material - Jean Arthur, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Melvyn Douglas - because the storyline was fun and sillilly amusing - an heiress turns the tables on a reporter, and decides to put him under the glare of publicity by planting a false story. I watched it all the way through, seeing potential in the script, and wishing it had been at another studio and cast differently, with a different director. I think it could have been a classic. There were priceless moments, from the fake car crash, to the jail scene, the airport scene - that with the right actors and a director like Mitchell Leisen or Greg LaCava or Howard Hawkes could have catapulted this film in a minor classic instead of an ersatz version of the classic screwballs by people who knew how to do it

Love is News (1937) *** (out of 4) Loretta Young plays a millionaire with a strong hatred of the press who she feels is constantly telling lies on her. One reporter (Tyrone Power) is the most guilty with his lies but Young plans on getting even by announcing to the world that they're going to be married. This way the reporter will know what it's like to be in the spotlight all the time. I read a couple negative reviews of this film but I thought they were way too hard on the film, which I found to be incredibly entertaining throughout with some terrific laughs from the cast. Young is my favorite actress and she delivers another strong performance here as she really captures that society girl image and delivers great comic timing. Power also comes off terrific as does Don Ameche in his role as Power's editor. The two men are constantly battling over the headlines and their comic timing together is wonderful and adds many laughs. Power also works great with Young and the two deliver the laughs as well as the romantic angle. George Sanders has a small role as Young's ex-fiancé. The film runs 78-minutes and there are very few scenes that don't work. The screwball antics are all very funny and the entire situation just makes for some wonderful laughs. One of the highlights is a scene in the bar where Power and another reporter are playing checkers on the floor with whiskey and beer.