Fools for Scandal

The film was an enormous box-office failure. Although Carole Lombard considered The Gay Bride (1934) her worst film, many contemporary fans give this movie that distinction. Lombard lacked chemistry with Fernand Gravey, and audiences, who had already begun tiring of screwball comedies, noted a similarity between the plots of Fools and Lombard's previous screwball film My Man Godfrey (1936). The film was such a box office failure that it prompted Lombard to pursue dramatic parts for the next few years until she did Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941).