{"id":15403,"date":"2022-12-30T21:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15403"},"modified":"2022-12-30T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:31:20","slug":"love-is-news-1937-tay-garnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15403","title":{"rendered":"Love is News (1937, Tay Garnett)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Criterion Screwball collection.  I&#8217;m not great at recognizing or remembering Loretta Young (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1457\">The Bishop&#8217;s Wife<\/a><\/em>) or Tyrone Power (<em>Nightmare Alley<\/em>), and besides a driving gig for Stepin Fetchit and a sputtering junior reporter scene for Elisha Cook Jr., we didn&#8217;t know any of the supporting cast.  Fortunately Don Ameche plays Tyrone&#8217;s news editor, anchoring the film with his trusty mustache.<\/p>\n<p>Years before Sam Fuller would hit the scene with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3865\">Power of the Press<\/a><\/em>, all newspaper men are portrayed as celebrity scandal chasers, and Tyrone is the sneakiest of the bunch.  Loretta is a rich celeb with an off-again engagement to a count (George Sanders with a silly accent).  After Tyrone tricks her into giving him a story, she takes revenge by claiming she&#8217;s marrying the reporter so he&#8217;ll be hounded by salesmen and other reporters using his own tricks against him.  Not as inventive as it might be (and what&#8217;s with the hick sheriff&#8217;s office six minutes outside NYC whose prison doors keep falling off) and we couldn&#8217;t make out half the dialogue, but at least the energy stays high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Criterion Screwball collection. I&#8217;m not great at recognizing or remembering Loretta Young (The Bishop&#8217;s Wife) or Tyrone Power (Nightmare Alley), and besides a driving gig for Stepin Fetchit and a sputtering junior reporter scene for Elisha Cook Jr., we didn&#8217;t know any of the supporting cast. Fortunately Don Ameche plays Tyrone&#8217;s news editor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,2799,3076,1447,3074,3075],"class_list":["post-15403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-elisha-cook-jr","tag-loretta-young","tag-reporter","tag-tay-garnett","tag-tyrone-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15437,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403\/revisions\/15437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}