Sheridan's classic play The School for Scandal. The film was Lombard's first and last for Warner Bros., and Mervyn LeRoy's last: afterward, he went to MGM. Fernand Gravet came to Warners after having achieved considerable success in French films under the name "Fernand Gravey", but the failure of Fools for Scandal prevented him from achieving star status in the United States. He made one other film in the US, The Great Waltz for MGM, before returning to France. Warners borrowed Ted Tetzlaff, Lombard's favorite cinematographer, from Paramount Pictures for the film, so that Lombard would be comfortable with how she was shot. She later said that she knew Fools for Scandal was a flop "when my friends confined their comments to how beautifully I had been photographed". Unfortunately for her, she was never able to work with Tetzlaff again. Reception Fools for Scandal was an enormous box-office failure. Although Lombard considered The Gay Bride her worst film, many contemporary fans give Fools for Scandal that distinction. Lombard lacked chemistry with Gravet, and audiences, who had already begun tiring of screwball comedies, noted a similarity between the plots of Fools for Scandal and Lombard's previous screwball film My Man Godfrey. Fools's failure prompted Lombard to pursue only dramatic roles for the next few years until she joined Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Montgomery for 1941's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. References External links 1938 films 1938 romantic comedy films 1930s screwball comedy films American romantic comedy films American screwball comedy films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Mervyn LeRoy Films set in London Films set in Paris Warner Bros. films American black-and-white films 1930s American films