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Fools for Scandal
Fools for Scandal is a 1938 screwball comedy film starring Carole Lombard and Fernand Gravet, and featuring Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, Isabel Jeans, Marie Wilson and Marcia Ralston. It was produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy and was written by Herbert Fields and Joseph Fields with additional dialogue by Irving Brecher and uncredited contributions by others, based on the unproduced 1936 play "Return Engagement" by Nancy Hamilton, James Shute, and Rosemary Casey. The songs are by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
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- Tempie Piggott as Bessie
Cast notes:
- "Fools for Scandal" featured a cameo by Lombard's beloved Pekingese, Pushface, and was the third pairing of Lombard and Bellamy.
Production.
The working title of the film, which was originally planned to be filmed in Technicolor, was "Food for Scandal"; both titles were inspired by Sheridan's classic play "The School for Scandal". The film was Lombard's first and last for Warner Bros., and Mervyn LeRoy's