Love Is News (1937)

Financier's daughter spars with newspaper reporter: he by writing about her, she by announcing their engagement.

Director:

Tay Garnett

Writers:

Harry Tugend (screenplay), Jack Yellen (screenplay)

Stars:

Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tyrone Power	...	Steve Leyton
Loretta Young	...	Tony Gateson
Don Ameche	...	Martin J. Canavan
Slim Summerville	...	Judge Hart
Dudley Digges	...	Cyrus Jeffrey
Walter Catlett	...	Eddie Johnson
Pauline Moore	...	Lois Westcott
Jane Darwell	...	Mrs. Flaherty
Stepin Fetchit	...	Penrod
George Sanders	...	Count Andre de Guyon
Elisha Cook Jr.	...	Egbert Eggleston
Frank Conroy	...	A.G. Findlay
Edwin Maxwell	...	Kenyon
Charles Williams	...	Joe Brady
Julius Tannen	...	Logan

Storyline

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?

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Plot Keywords:

screwball comedy | reporter | heiress | scoop | salesman | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 February 1937 (USA)

Also Known As:

Amor y periodismo

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox

Technical Specs

Runtime:

77 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA High Fidelity Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Loretta Young was reportedly angry that Tyrone Power got top billing.

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Quotes

Cyrus Jeffrey: You're not going to marry my niece?
Steve Leyton: Not while I'm sane!
Tony Gateson: [laughs]
Cyrus Jeffrey: Tony, this isn't true, is it?
Tony Gateson: Just as true of other things that gentleman of the press has been writing about me.

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Connections

Remade as That Wonderful Urge (1948)

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Soundtracks

The Prisoner's Song
(1924) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Guy Massey
Sung a cappella by Loretta Young
Reprised a cappella by Tyrone Power

User Reviews

Adorable light comedy, adorable stars

Three of 20th Century Fox's stars of the late '30s team up for "Love is News" - Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, and Don Ameche. Power plays a clever reporter, Steve Layton, who is after a big story on a $100 million heiress, Toni Gateson (Young). Sick of being hounded night and day by the press, Young turns the tables on him and announces to the world that she and Layton are engaged. It comes as a surprise to him, as it does to his editor, Ameche, and of course, they don't have the story and the rest of the papers do. Layton soon learns that being engaged to Gateson has some perks and also a few things that aren't so great, particularly when the two of them end up in adjacent jail cells.

There is a very funny scene in the beginning where Power and Ameche become hysterical laughing as they reminisce about the horrible things they've done to one another. The actors worked together often and make a great team. Young is gorgeous as the heiress, and she and Power are a beautiful couple as usual. This is one of Power's very early films - he was about 23 at the time - and still in his pretty phase. You can't take your eyes off of him when he's on screen - he lights it up.

This is a high-energy, pleasant comedy with a delightful cast, though there's nothing particularly unusual about the story. Madcap heiresses abounded in '30s films. Power actually remade this movie with Gene Tierney in 1948 as "That Wonderful Urge." By then, it was tired stuff, and Power was tired of these roles. But here, it's three young stars on top of the world, and you can't beat the spirit with which they imbue "Love is News."