Fools for Scandal (1938)
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In her only Warner Bros. starring film, Carole Lombard plays a Hollywood movie actress who makes the park-bench acquaintance of an impoverished French marquis (Fernand Gravet). Hoping to coerce Carole into marriage, the nobleman poses as a butler and enters her household. His plan is to compromise Lombard and force her to make him an "honest man"--with the attendant cash settlement. Ralph Bellamy, as ever, is the poor clod who really loves Lombard but who loses her in the end to the chastened Gravet. Rodgers and Hart were commissioned to write several songs for this film, but found most of their efforts consigned to the cutting room floor. Fools for Scandal was based on Nancy Hamilton's stage play Return Engagement. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravey, (more)
- Director(s):
- Bobby Connolly, Mervyn LeRoy, (more)
Synopsis of Fools for Scandal
In her only Warner Bros. starring film, Carole Lombard plays a Hollywood movie actress who makes the park-bench acquaintance of an impoverished French marquis (Fernand Gravet). Hoping to coerce Carole into marriage, the nobleman poses as a butler and enters her household. His plan is to compromise Lombard and force her to make him an "honest man"--with the attendant cash settlement. Ralph Bellamy, as ever, is the poor clod who really loves Lombard but who loses her in the end to the chastened Gravet. Rodgers and Hart were commissioned to write several songs for this film, but found most of their efforts consigned to the cutting room floor. Fools for Scandal was based on Nancy Hamilton's stage play Return Engagement. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Fools for Scandal
- Carole Lombard - Kay Winters
- Ralph Bellamy - Phillip Chester
- Isabel Jeans - Paula Malverton
- Marcia Ralston - Jill
- Heather Thatcher - Lady Potter-Porter
- Michelette Burani - Mme. Brioche
- Elspeth Dudgeon - Cynthia
- Michael Romanoff - Party guest
- Ara Gerald - Mrs. Bullit
- Dina Smirnova - Party Guest
- Norma Varden - Cicely
- Lotus Thompson - Party guest
- Tempe Piggott - Bessie
- Elizabeth Dunne - Tourist
- Leyland Hodgson - Mr. Bullit
- Fernand Gravey - Rene
- Allen Jenkins - Dewey Gibson
- Marie Wilson - Myrtle
- Ottola Nesmith - Agnes
- Jacques Lory - Papa Joli-Coeur
- Jeni Le Gon - Specialty
- Lionel Pape - Photographer
- Andre Marsaudon - Gendarme
- Jean Benedict - Evelyn
- Jane Wyman - Bit part
- Rosella Towne - Diana
- John Sutton - Bruce Devon
- Albert Petit - Gendarme
- Sarah Edwards - Tourist
- Hugh Huntley - Party guest
- Director(s):
- Mervyn LeRoy, Bobby Connolly
- Writer(s):
- Herbert Fields, Joseph Fields, Irving Brecher
- Producer(s):
- Mervyn LeRoy
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