Why have I never seen this before?

We saw and loved “Libeled Lady”:http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60010593&trkid=189530&dmode=ATAGLANCE&lnkctr=mdptabDetails&#details, a screwball comedy from 1936 starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Jean Harlow. Super cast, especially Powell and Loy (this was filmed a couple years after The Thin Man), and a wild plot. A surprise announcement at the end has us all set up for a tidy ending, before another surprise announcement throws things back into chaos.

Libeled Lady was nominated in the “1936 Academy awards”:http://www.filmsite.org/aa36.html for Best Picture, which was won by The Great Ziegfeld, also a Powell and Loy production. Two of the other outstanding movies from that year were My Man Godfrey and Mr Deeds Goes to Town.

Amazing to think such a new medium could have such great work so early on– after all talking pictures had been introduced only a decade earlier. I suppose you could say that similarly amazing degree of progress was made in the first decade of the web– but in 70 years, will anyone still be reading the pages we create today?