Plot Summary - Romantic comedy with a touch of screwball and featuring four great Thirties stars. When a New York newspaper is facing a libel suit for five million dollars over a false story calling one of the "richest girls in America", playgirl Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy), a "husband stealer", gung-ho newspaper man, Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy), must come up with a way to get rid of the lawsuit and save the paper. He recruits former colleague and libel expert Bill Chandler (William Powell) to help and they come up with an idea to prove Connie an actual husband stealer. So - Bill marries Warren's fiancee Gladys (Jean Harlow) - a hot-tempered blonde often sporting frilly negligee and a pair of mules - with plans to set up Connie for a fall with Gladys posing as a "wronged wife" (then later sending Gladys to Reno for a quickie divorce). Bill heads for London to travel back on the same ocean liner as Connie and her father, then attempts to befriend the pair basically by kissing up to the dad, exchanging fish stories and posing as a great angler (dad's favorite hobby) - - as it happens, Bill has never fished and has to study up in books! Bill and Connie start to fall for each other - will he go through with the frame up, will she drop the lawsuit? Hmm - just you watch.
Review - This is a great film - I've seen it a number of times before and it still makes me laugh, very amusing! With the star power of Myrna Loy, William Powell, Spencer Tracy, and Jean Harlow all together in one film, it would be hard for this one not to work. The script is well written and features lots of snappy dialogue, the story is fun to watch. Loy and Powell certainly have their usual onscreen chemistry together - and I really think Jean Harlow practically steals the show, even with all those other stars - she's over-the-top, even a bit campy in this, and she dominates every scene she's in - fun stuff. I love this movie! Rating - 10/10 stars
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