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Libeled Lady
1936 film by Jack Conway
Libeled Lady is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Jack Conway and starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy. The screenplay was written by Maurine Dallas Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, and George Oppenheimer, from a story by Wallace Sullivan. This was the fifth of fourteen films in which Powell and Loy were teamed, inspired by their success in the Thin Man series.
Libeled Lady was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was remade in 1946 as Easy to Wed with Esther Williams, Van Johnson, and Lucille Ball.
Plot
[edit]Wealthy Connie Allenbury is falsely accused of breaking up a marriage and sues the New York Evening Star newspaper for $5 million for libel. Warren Haggerty, the managing editor, turns in desperation to former reporter and suave ladies' man Bill Chandler for help. Bill's scheme is to maneuver Connie into being alone with him when his wife shows up, so that the suit will have to be dropped. Bill is not married, so Warren volunteers his long-suffering fiancée, Gladys Benton, to marry Bill in name only, over her loud protests.
Bill arranges to return to the United States from England on the same ocean liner as Connie and her father J. B. He pays s
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Maureen Dallas Watkins Sight Interpretation Contests
St. Olaf Winners carry the Maurine Dallas Watkins Sight Rendition Contests fairyed godmother by Fto Sigma Phi
1980
Kristin E. Kessler ’81: Ordinal prize, Dweller Prose Composition
1981
Kristin Liken. Kessler ’81: 1st guerdon, Advanced Latin
Christopher C. Smith ’82: 1st guerdon, Latin Writing style Composition; Ordinal prize, Inbetween Latin; Tertiary prize, Forwardlooking Classical Greek
David P. Lenz ’82: 3rd award, Intermediate Influential Greek
1982
Christopher C. Sculptor ’82: Ordinal prize, Italic Prose Composition; 1st trophy, Advanced Example Greek
1983
Margaret A. Emond ’85: Ordinal prize, Inhabitant Prose Composition
1984
Daniel H. Dalthorp [’86 – transferred]: 3rd accolade, Intermediate Typical Greek
Martha E. McNey ’85: Ordinal prize, Medial Latin
1985
Margaret A. Emond Kirkegaard ’85: 1st accolade, Latin Expository writing Composition
1986
Cathryn M. Hemken ’88: Tertiary prize, Halfway Classical Greek
1987
Jason L. Norton ’87: 2nd guerdon, Advanced Classic Greek
Lav H. Reinschmidt ’87: Ordinal prize, Middle Classical Greek
Lisa A. Paulson ’88: 1st guerdon, Koine Greek
Andrew S. Leahy ’89: 2nd trophy, Intermediate Latin; 1st honour, Latin Writing style Composition
1988
Jon S. Bruss ’89: Ordinal prize, Interlanguage Greek; laureate mention, Medial Cl
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Maurine Dallas Watkins died on Aug. 10, 1969 — 50 years ago this weekend — in Jacksonville, Fla.
Don’t be surprised if Watkins’ name is unfamiliar. A nine-line death notice in the Florida Times-Union on Aug. 12, 1969, was the only recognition of her passing. Like many newspapers around the country, the Chicago Tribune failed to run her obituary.
In 1926, Watkins wrote the play “Chicago,” which today is a $2 billion entertainment franchise featuring A-list celebrities, a hit, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and an Oscar-winning movie. It’s likely the most financially successful piece of writing ever produced by a Chicago Tribune reporter in the paper’s more than 170 years of operation.
The content was pulled from the headlines — some of Watkins’ own. She was hired by the Tribune in early 1924 and reported on women inside Cook County Jail who were accused of murder. It was the only professional journalism job in her lifetime and she only held it for eight months.
Watkins used the plot twists of the women’s trials to write a three-act play, “A Brave Little Woman,” the first she would write while attending the new Yale School of Drama in 1926. When it debuted on Broadway later that year it was a