rickdumesnil-55203 this film is hilarious from beginning to end. don ameche getting phone calls from MABEL...the two reporters in a laughing craze remembering old times......the jail scene the doors......Loretta young has got to be one of the best looking of all actresses. and good in comedy. as for TYRONE POWER may i say its not a good thing to see him so often on screen. we tend to look at only him and not the expressions of other actors. this man is perfection. and power handles comedy just as well as CARY GRANT. was going to give it a 10...but lets not go overboard. heard it has been remade as the wonderful urge....i got this one too and will watch it later. buy or watch this funny unpretentious little screwball comedy....you wont regret it

JLRMovieReviews Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, and Don Ameche star in this fun fast-moving comedy about the press and how they hound celebrities and how it feels when the shoe's on the other foot.Ty is a reporter who tries to catch Loretta, a millionairess who just broke up with a duke or something, and get the story for himself for an exclusive. They don't get along at all. Really, they don't. At least for a while anyway.Costarring George Sanders, Jane Darwell, Walter Catlett and Elisha Cook, Jr. in a small role, it feels like a poor man's "Libeled Lady." But, just because something's unknown doesn't mean it isn't worth watching. This is one of the best Ty/Loretta films they made together and should be watched again and again. And, with Don Ameche as his boss, this is one escapade that's too good to miss.

MartinHafer LOVE IS NEWS is a great old style film that they just don't make any more. It's really a shame, as I had a lot of fun watching it and don't know why the film isn't better known. Sure, I'll admit that the plot is hard to believe, but this is like most screwball comedies of the era! You just need to suspend disbelief and enjoy.This is one of the earliest films of Tyrone Power and considering his short record in films, it was quite the coup to be starring in this film with Loretta Young. Power plays a guy much like many of Clark Gable's--glib, good looking and not afraid to stretch the truth...'a bit'. In fact, Gable played newspaper men like this on at least a couple occasions at rival MGM. Power, despite his lack of experience, was at the top of his game--delivering a professional and enjoyable performance. Young is equally likable, though considering she'd been in films for some time and her track record, it wasn't surprising at all that she was up to the task.The film begins with Power sneaking on to a plane to get an interview with a rich millionairess (Young). The problem, though, is that Young hates reporters, as they've made her life a circus for years and she gets no peace at all. So, on a lark, when she discovers that Power is yet another reporter, she decides to give him a piece of his own medicine and have him learn what it's like to be constantly hounded. She tells the other reporters that she and Power are engaged and soon Power is besieged with fortune hunters, reporters and people wanting to sell him practically everything! And, no matter how much he tries to convince everyone that his is NOT engaged, Young insists that they are! Knowing where this all will end isn't a total surprise but the journey there is exceptional--and fun! The supporting characters (I particularly liked Slim Summerville as the judge and he had a great little jail) were great, the writing (aside from a ridiculous plot) was great and the whole thing was directed very well--resulting in a funny as well as romantic old film. After seeing it, I could easily see why Power soon rose to fame--this was an excellent vehicle.By the way, this film and its remake (also starring Tyrone Power), THAT WONDERFUL URGE, are available bundled together on DVD. Of the two, LOVE IS NEWS is definitely the better film--not just because it's original but because it just works much better.

bkoganbing Back when this film was made in the mid Thirties there seem to be an abundance of films about madcap heiresses. In the middle of the Great Depression films about the rich partying away seemed to find an audience.Back then the real life model was Peggy Hopkins Joyce, today it's Paris Hilton. We just love to read about the rich doing their reveling.So the premise is a bit ludicrous about Loretta Young getting very angry at the newspaper reporters for reporting on her every move. Believe me if she didn't want publicity she wouldn't get any. Believe it or not, then as now, there are rich people out there who are not tabloid fodder.But I guess anyone can get a little cranky and Loretta has come her time of crankiness in Love Is News. When an especially enterprising reporter gets on board her private plane, she's had it. While reporter Tyrone Power thinks he's scooped his colleagues, Young has an impromptu press conference with the others and announces she's engaged to Tyrone Power.And then Power as he was in real life becomes the object of a lot of tabloid fodder. His editor is Don Ameche who keeps firing and hiring him back to straighten the mess out. If this were done at Warner Brothers, Love Is News would have been perfect for James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.Twelve years later Power did a remake of this same film with Gene Tierney. Hard to choose between the two which is better. Ty is at the beginning of his career and Darryl Zanuck was casting him in all kinds of parts, comedic, adventurous, dramatic. And Power himself was perfecting his screen image.Best scenes in the film involve small town judge Slim Summerville who Young comes up before for speeding and that sets up a whole bunch of funny situations.I can see this being remade today, unless Paris Hilton herself wants to star in it.