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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAfter meeting her in Paris, a penniless marquis relentlessly pursues a famous actress.After meeting her in Paris, a penniless marquis relentlessly pursues a famous actress.After meeting her in Paris, a penniless marquis relentlessly pursues a famous actress.
Fernand Gravey
- Rene Vilardell
- (as Fernand Gravet)
Ottola Nesmith
- Agnes
- (as Tola Nesmith)
Tempe Pigott
- Bessie
- (as Tempe Piggott)
Jeni Le Gon
- Singer at Le Petit Harlem
- (as Jeni LeGon)
Jean Benedict
- Evelyn
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Jack Deery
- Party Guest
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Elspeth Dudgeon
- Cynthia
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Elizabeth Dunne
- Tourist Buying Rug
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
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- QuizFools 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 and Lombard's previous screwball film My Man Godfrey. The film was such a box office failure it prompted Carole Lombard to pursue dramatic parts for the next few years until she did Il signore e la signora Smith (1941).
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Kay Winters: You know, today, I saw Paris for the first time. Isn't France wonderful! Everybody speaks French, even the children.
- ConnessioniReferences Bring 'Em Back Alive (1932)
- Colonne sonoreFools for Scandal
(1938) (uncredited)
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Played during the opening credits
Whistled by Fernand Gravey
Rhymed dialogue between Fernand Gravey and Carole Lombard
Recensione in evidenza
Carole Lombard plays a famous American actress staying in Paris; she encounters handsome but broke Fernand Gravet, who spends the first part of the film trying to rescue various items from the pawn shop, and then ends up as Lombard's chef—whether she wants him or not. It's all mildly amusing.
Allen Jenkins does his best as Gravet's sidekick but is hampered by lack of strong dialog. Isabel Jeans gives a deliciously gossipy performance as "Lady Malverton," a pillar of society who knows a good scandal when she smells one.
Ralph Bellamy is good as always, playing his usual chump in love with easily-distracted Lombard. One of the picture's few highlights is when Bellamy tries to tell a joke about a man ordering a steak—it's a really crummy joke made worse by Bellamy's chuckling as he tells it. (That this is a highlight unfortunately says a lot about the rest of the picture.)
The story is okay, the production slick, the dialog decent .but it's all just a little slow, or flat, or too predictable. Lombard is beautiful and frenetic as always—but there's just not much to her character, and certainly nothing memorable or unique from her other similar roles. And Fernand Gravet? Whether he was miscast or mismatched, I don't know—but he's just not very appealing.
Overall, a nice try but pretty forgettable. Too bad.
Allen Jenkins does his best as Gravet's sidekick but is hampered by lack of strong dialog. Isabel Jeans gives a deliciously gossipy performance as "Lady Malverton," a pillar of society who knows a good scandal when she smells one.
Ralph Bellamy is good as always, playing his usual chump in love with easily-distracted Lombard. One of the picture's few highlights is when Bellamy tries to tell a joke about a man ordering a steak—it's a really crummy joke made worse by Bellamy's chuckling as he tells it. (That this is a highlight unfortunately says a lot about the rest of the picture.)
The story is okay, the production slick, the dialog decent .but it's all just a little slow, or flat, or too predictable. Lombard is beautiful and frenetic as always—but there's just not much to her character, and certainly nothing memorable or unique from her other similar roles. And Fernand Gravet? Whether he was miscast or mismatched, I don't know—but he's just not very appealing.
Overall, a nice try but pretty forgettable. Too bad.
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- Fools for Scandal
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- Budget
- 1.300.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 20 minuti
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- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Il piacere dello scandalo (1938) officially released in Canada in English?
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