Scandal Sheet ** (1938, Lew Ayres, Louise Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 11,913

Director James Hogan’s 1938 Paramount Productions black and white drama film Scandal Sheet is based on the original story Suburb by Vera Caspary, and stars Lew Ayres and Louise Campbell.

A woman called Nora Langdon (Campbell)’s fiancé Joe McNight (Ayres) helps her out when the local gossips accuse her of immorality and murder.

Scandal Sheet is an acceptable, entirely likeable support feature, made and played with some skill, especially by an on-form support cast.

Also in the cast are Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Virginia Weidler, Edgar Kennedy, Elizabeth Patterson, Cecil Cunningham, Jan Duggan, Laraine Day [Laraine Johnson], Lois Kent, Esther Howard, Lucien Littlefield, Louise Beavers, and Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer.

Scandal Sheet is directed by James Hogan, runs 62 minutes, is made and released by Paramount Pictures, is written by Bertram Millhauser and Eddie Welch and shot in black and white by Henry Sharp.

Lew Ayres is also the star of 1938’s Young Dr Kildare. MGM loaned Ayres out to Paramount for Scandal Sheet soon before MGM cast him as Dr Kildare in their wonderful Dr Kildare series. Ironically Paramount had released a Kildare movie the year before this with a different cast.

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