Love Is News

Love Is News, When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that she’s engaged to him and that she’s given him a million dollar dowry. Suddenly he’s on the front page and every salesman is at his doorstep. He loses his job and a day later asks her to call off the ruse; she tricks him again and the publicity continues. She stays cheerful and resourceful through a series of misadventures that has him alternately back on his job and fired. Meanwhile, a count who’s her ex-fiancé shows up in New York, and maybe that marriage is back on. Can an heiress be a human being, and can a reporter get a scoop?

STARS: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche

77 min | Comedy, Romance | 1937 | Color

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Wonderfully light comedy with comely stars, lively dialogue

Tay Garnett probably deserved greater status among directors after directing the 1941 version of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, but if I were to choose a favorite among his films, LOVE IS NEWS would be it.

This light, quasi screwball comedy, has wonderful moments thanks to a sharp yet always humorous script from the Tugend and Yellen duo, and the mostly interior cinematography by Ernest Palmer certainly deserves praise for its effectiveness.

However, Tyrone Power and Loretta Young are the real cherries on this cake: both beautiful and charismatic, sharing strong chemistry, they command the screen (Loretta lamentably only appears after 10'... but when she does, sheer glory!)

They are ably supported by Don Ameche as Tyrone's newspaper chief, who either fires or rehires him, raising his salary every time he changes his mind. Slim Summerville delivers a small but memorable part as the judge cum warden of a jail whose doors keep falling. However, it is the great George Sanders who stays with me, gracefully handling an unenviable part as an European aristocratic gold digger trying to get his hooks on famously wealthy Loretta's millions, and resorting to subtle blackmail, other underhand and illegal tricks along the way, but showing that he is a good loser when his greed prevents him landing similarly well-off Pauline Moore.

At 77' minutes long, I was sorry to see it end. LOVE IS NEWS far surpasses its 1948 remake, also with Tyrone Power, entitled THAT WONDERFUL URGE.