Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
Casey Duggan
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Francene Odetta
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
GManfred
Toni Gateson is an heiress with an edge. She flies into town and is hoodwinked by reporter Steve Leyton, who gets an exclusive interview under false pretenses. "OK, you got me", right? No,no. She proceeds to make his life miserable with a series of humiliations, and he responds in kind. Sound funny?Things get far afield. He gets her arrested, and she does the same. As a millionairess, she has breakfast served at her cell and when she is bailed out, she bails him out. He refuses. Soon, he loses his job, is rehired, fired, rehired, etc. to further the comedy. If this all sounds funny, you might like "Judgment At Nuremberg", which is even funnier.If done right, screwball comedy is very funny. For instance, take "The Awful Truth" - now that was funny. This picture tried too hard and was the visual equivalent of fingernails dragged down a blackboard. Tyrone Power and Loretta Young were very attractive and gave it their best, to no avail. Don Ameche was reduced to shouting his lines and slamming down phones as the beleaguered editor in a one-dimensional role which did him no credit. Humorous moments in "Love Is News" were too fleeting for a higher rating.
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.
mark.waltz
Why is it that in the old days, movies used people's private lives as front page news? Wasn't there a depression going on? A war about to break out in Europe? A big New York newspaper then has to focus on the life of a silly millionairess (Loretta Young) who has just broken off with a gold-digging Russian Count (George Sanders). Reporter Tyrone Power gets on her plane, gets her to talk, then gets the story to his editor (Don Ameche), on a break from saying "yes, dear" to his constant telephone calling nagging wife (whom, thankfully, we never see.) Young decides to get even by alerting the other local newspapers that she has become engaged to Power, which causes him havoc at every turn as he deals with sudden "celebrity status" and the fury of Ameche. Cute premise, yet beyond "today's newspaper, tomorrow's fish wrapper" premise, who would really care about such goings on when the world is in trauma? OK, in the society column perhaps, but on the front page? Oh, let's be real here! OK, this is just a film, a screwball comedy famous for such lapses of reality. Did audiences really think that a bunch of rich people would traipse all over New York looking for a forgotten man, or that a woman dying of uranium poisoning would become the darling of New York society? Yet, "My Man Godfrey" and "Nothing Sacred" were spoofing the ridiculousness of society and newspaper headlines with their farcism. The problem here isn't the premise, or even the stars; It would be great if the story appeared in another section BUT the front page. It is also very apparent that Loretta Young and Tyrone Power were one of the best looking screen couples of the 30's, and had TONS of chemistry. That made them box-office bonanza, and they could re-do "Abie's Irish Rose" and get away with it. But I don't think anybody believes that Loretta Young was anything like the rather brainless twit she plays here that would waste her entire life trying to make Powers' miserable by acting all lovey dovey and not end up falling in love with him herself. Tyrone Power comes off best; He is handsome without being embarrassed by it (like Robert Taylor was), and masculine without being ridiculously macho. He's just your average guy who happens to look like a movie star, that's all. His charm was very apparent and he comes off more likable than Ms. Young.As for Don Ameche, sadly, he is wasted here. There is no love triangle involving him; His role could have been played by any contract character actor. Even though he had been in films for only a year, it was apparent he was going places, so he is sadly wasted. George Sanders plays his typical Euro-Trash cad, not as deadly as in some of his other films, yet obviously out for his own gain. Walter Catlett is funny as a rival reporter who plays chess with Power using beer and whiskey as the pieces. It probably set off a trend of college parties where the winner gets drunk, and the looser ends up hang-over free. (Who's really the looser?) Then, there is the small town jail scene with Slim Summerville as the droopy faced judge who sentences Power and Young to do time for various crimes. (She was speeding; He was taking something out of her car at her request, which she later denied). The sequence is funny (featuring prison doors that keep falling off the hinges) yet unrealistic. Yet again, this is a screwball comedy, not at all to be taken as anything but a fantasy of what life is really like. Jane Darwell has a few amusing moments as Powers' landlady. Dudley Digges, usually cast as elderly villains, has a change of pace here as Young's likable uncle.The film was remade in 1948 (with an aging Power and Gene Tierney) as "That Wonderful Urge" that seemed even more out of place in Post-War America when there was more important things to go into the entire newspaper than stuff like this. This time, the heroine pretends their married, which adds some sexual tension into the midst. Comparing the two films on the DVD, "Love is News" comes off a bit better, though not much.
blanche-2
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."
