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The Screwball Story

Libeled Lady (Jack Conway, 1936)

Season 1, Ep. 4
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On this episode I discuss Libeled Lady (Jack Conway, 1936) starring Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, William Powell, and Spencer Tracy.


Works Cited:


Vincent Canby, "How a 1936 Screwball Comedy Illuminates Movie History," The New York Times (February 1, 1981), section 2, pg. 15.


The Dick Cavett Show, "Myrna Loy," (1980), season 12, episode 36.


Kathrina Glitre, Hollywood Romantic Comedy: States of the Union, 1934-1965 (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2013).


Grégoire Halbout, Hollywood Screwball Comedy, 1934-1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).


Emily Leider, Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).


Myrna Loy and James Kotsilibas-Davis, Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming (New York: Donald I Fine, 1988).


David Stenn, Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow (New York: Doubleday, 1993).


James Curtis, Spencer Tracy: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 2011).

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