Enjoyable enough but it cannot hold a candle to the original.

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You're too modest. Why, you're a woman of great depths, depths that have never been plumbed.

Lucille Ball, Van Johnson, and Esther Williams in Easy to Wed (1946)

Cecil Kellaway and Esther Williams in Easy to Wed (1946)

Lucille Ball and Esther Williams in Easy to Wed (1946)

Lucille Ball, Van Johnson, and Keenan Wynn in Easy to Wed (1946)

Van Johnson and Esther Williams in Easy to Wed (1946)

Van Johnson

Esther Williams

Lucille Ball

Dorothy Kingsley

George Oppenheimer

Maurine Dallas Watkins

To prevent a libel case against the paper, a reporter tries to compromise the reputation of a tycoon&apos;s slandered daughter.

Edward Buzzell

Buster Keaton

Edward Sedgwick

Easy to Wed

&quot;Libeled Lady&quot; is one of the best comedies of the 1930s. Much of was the writing and much was due to the incredibly strong cast. Think about it---Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and William Powell--ALL in one film! In 1946, MGM brought out a remake. While the basic story is similar, it&apos;s not as good. Plus, Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn and Lucille Ball just weren&apos;t as good--though they tried.

Like &quot;Libeled Lady&quot;, the film is about a rich lady who is suing an irresponsible newspaper for its stories about her. However, oddly, in the original she was suing for $5,000,000 and here, a decade later, it&apos;s only $2,000,000--significant deflation, don&apos;t you think? To help try to get rid of the suit, the scheming newspaper man, Haggerty (Wynn), hires Bill Chandler (Van Johnson) to seduce the heiress, Connie Allenbury (Williams). Why? Because, in the interim, they&apos;d get Bill a quickie marriage. Then, they&apos;d have the &apos;jealous wife&apos; storm in on them and threaten a suit of her own--along with photographers from the paper to make her case! But, since Bill isn&apos;t married, Haggerty has Chandler marry HIS fiancée (Lucille Ball)! Talk about romantic--getting Chandler to marry Haggerty&apos;s girl! There&apos;s only one problem with the plan...Bill falls for Connie and just can&apos;t get himself to do it. So, he schemes for a way to somehow please Haggerty AND Connie...if it&apos;s possible.

The film is decent and offers a few laughs. However it suffers from a few plot problems (Connie&apos;s falling in love with Bill seems incredibly fast considering how nasty she&apos;d been towards him up until then), now includes song which got in the way of the plot and the characters aren&apos;t particularly likable (Connie is amazingly nasty--and for no reason--when she first meets Bill). Plus, it lacks the originality and fun of the first film. If you like remakes, by all means see this one. But, don&apos;t forget to first see &quot;Libeled Lady&quot;--it&apos;s just better.

By the way, the plot of &quot;Easy to Wed&quot; is very, very odd considering only about six months later, Keenan Wynn and his real-life wife divorced....so she could marry Van Johnson! To make it even weirder, it now appears that this, like the marriage in the movie, was a sham marriage, as in his later years Johnson admitted to being gay--and I sincerely doubt that this was a sudden late-life &apos;phase&apos;!

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"Libeled Lady" is one of the best comedies of the 1930s. Much of was the writing and much was due to the incredibly strong cast. Think about it---Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and William Powell--ALL in one film! In 1946, MGM brought out a remake. While the basic story is similar, it's not as good. Plus, Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn and Lucille Ball just weren't as good--though they tried.

Like "Libeled Lady", the film is about a rich lady who is suing an irresponsible newspaper for its stories about her. However, oddly, in the original she was suing for $5,000,000 and here, a decade later, it's only $2,000,000--significant deflation, don't you think? To help try to get rid of the suit, the scheming newspaper man, Haggerty (Wynn), hires Bill Chandler (Van Johnson) to seduce the heiress, Connie Allenbury (Williams). Why? Because, in the interim, they'd get Bill a quickie marriage. Then, they'd have the 'jealous wife' storm in on them and threaten a suit of her own--along with photographers from the paper to make her case! But, since Bill isn't married, Haggerty has Chandler marry HIS fiancée (Lucille Ball)! Talk about romantic--getting Chandler to marry Haggerty's girl! There's only one problem with the plan...Bill falls for Connie and just can't get himself to do it. So, he schemes for a way to somehow please Haggerty AND Connie...if it's possible.

The film is decent and offers a few laughs. However it suffers from a few plot problems (Connie's falling in love with Bill seems incredibly fast considering how nasty she'd been towards him up until then), now includes song which got in the way of the plot and the characters aren't particularly likable (Connie is amazingly nasty--and for no reason--when she first meets Bill). Plus, it lacks the originality and fun of the first film. If you like remakes, by all means see this one. But, don't forget to first see "Libeled Lady"--it's just better.

By the way, the plot of "Easy to Wed" is very, very odd considering only about six months later, Keenan Wynn and his real-life wife divorced....so she could marry Van Johnson! To make it even weirder, it now appears that this, like the marriage in the movie, was a sham marriage, as in his later years Johnson admitted to being gay--and I sincerely doubt that this was a sudden late-life 'phase'!

To prevent a libel case against the paper, a reporter tries to compromise the reputation of a tycoon's slandered daughter.

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