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==Production== The film went into production in mid-July 1936 and wrapped on September 1.<ref>{{cite web |title=Libeled Lady (1936) Overview |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2363/libeled-lady |website=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=September 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208140624/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=2363 |archive-date=February 8, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> Location shooting took place in [[Sonora, California]].<ref name="AFIcat">{{cite web |title=Libeled Lady (1936) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/3254 |website=[[AFI Catalog]] |access-date=September 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418210306/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/3254 |archive-date=April 18, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Lionel Barrymore]] was originally cast as Mr. Allenbury,<ref name="TCMnotes">{{cite web |title=Libeled Lady (1936) Notes |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2363/libeled-lady/#notes |website=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=September 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021042625/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2363/libeled-lady/#notes |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Rosalind Russell]] was originally considered to play Connie Allenbury.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} Harlow and Powell were an off-screen couple, and Harlow wanted to play Connie Allenbury, so that her character and Powell's wound up together.<ref name="tcmarticle" /> MGM insisted, however, that the film be another William Powell-Myrna Loy vehicle, as they originally intended. Harlow had already signed on to do the film but had to settle for the role of Gladys Benton. Nevertheless, as Gladys, top-billed Harlow got to play a wedding scene with Powell. During filming, Harlow changed her legal name from Harlean Carpenter McGrew Bern Rosson to Jean Harlow.<ref name="tcmarticle">{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Frank |title=Libeled Lady |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2363/libeled-lady/#articles-reviews?articleId=62623 |website=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |date=November 24, 2003 |access-date=September 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021042625/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2363/libeled-lady/#articles-reviews?articleId=62623 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> She made only two more films before dying at the age of 26 in 1937. Tracy had previously been enamoured with Loy, who was newly married to [[Arthur Hornblow Jr.]] at the time of this production.<ref>Anderson, Christopher. ''An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy''. New York: Morrow, 1997, pp. 85-86</ref> Loy’s autobiography recounted the humorous atmosphere on the set.<ref>Myrna Loy, “Being and Becoming: A Memoir”, Alfred A. Knopf Press, 1987, pp.190-191</ref> For example, Tracy set up an "I hate Hornblow" table in the studio commissary, reserved for men who claimed to have been romantically rejected by Loy.<ref name="tcmarticle"/> Two passenger liners made cameos as the ship in the film, the SS ''Queen Anne'': Cunard's [[RMS Berengaria|RMS ''Berengaria'']] (in the pierside view) and France's [[SS Normandie|SS ''Normandie'']] in an aerial shot.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
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