The third Loy-Powell pairing of 1934 was from the previous year's book by WE Woodward, adroitly adapted for the screen by Lenore Coffee, in which Loy is embroiled in a murder case which Powell is defending, unknowingly. Isabel Jewell is in the dock, but who is Una Merkel, Loy's bubbly friend? Well, she was in a
lot of films in the 1930s including
42nd Street, Blonde Bombshell, The Merry Widow (Lubitsch),
Destry Rides Again, The Bank Dick, Road to Zanzibar, and latterly
The Parent Trap (1961).
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| Merkel sporting the latest creation of MGM's fashion madness |
It's not very interesting cinematically (and certain supporting characters are flabbily played) but we enjoyed it. With Rosalind Russell, Harvey Stephens, Edward Brophy.
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| Is Powell having affair with Russell, as we fade into 'Greenwich Village'? |
To answer the above question, it sounds like he
isn't having an affair 'any more'... this is all a bit murky - it's OK for a husband to have an affair, but not the wife, good lord no... Also note Merkel won't tell her BF her husband's been cheating.
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