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Although Lombard considered The Gay Bride her worst film, many contemporary fans give Fools for Scandal that distinction. Lombard lacked chemistry with Gravet, and audiences, who had already begun tiring of screwball comedies, noted a similarity between the plots of Fools for Scandal and Lombard's previous screwball film My Man Godfrey .
Jan 21, 2021 · Among critics and fans alike, Fools for Scandal (1938) is considered one of Carole Lombard's worst films - and for good reason! Upon my first viewing of Lombard's filmography, I ranked Fools for Scandal slightly above The Gay Bride (1934) - the film which Carole herself described in the mid-1930s as her least favorite (Harvey…
Fools for Scandal was an enormous box-office failure. Although Carole Lombard considered The Gay Bride her worst film, many contemporary fans give Fools for Scandal that distinction. Lombard lacked chemistry with Gravet, and audiences, who had already begun tiring of screwball comedies, noted a similarity between the plots of Fools for Scandal ...
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- Comedy, Music, Romance
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1938-04-16
Fools For Scandal is not one of Lombard's really great films, but it certainly will satisfy her legion of fans. There's also nice parts for Marie Wilson as Lombard's maid as her usual vacuous self and Allen Jenkins who is Gravey's American friend from Brooklyn.
Fools for Scandal (1938) - Fools for Scandal was an enormous box-office failure. Although Carole Lombard considered The Gay Bride her worst film, many contemporary fans give Fools for Scandal that distinction.
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Mar 1, 2018 · Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1938 Warner Bros movie is an unexpectedly sad failure of a romantic comedy in which Fernand Gravey [Gravet] stars as a broke French nobleman called René Vilardell who in London masquerades as the chef/ butler to a rich film star named Kay Winters (Carole Lombard) to win her affections.
