Love is News / The Mark of Zorro

LOVE IS NEWS, 1937, 20th Century Fox, 72 min. Dir. Tay Garnett. A beautiful heiress (Loretta Young) turns the publicity tables on an aggressive young reporter (Tyrone Power) by announcing their engagement. Power and Young were a popular team in Hollywood in the late 1930s and worked together several times including CAFE METROPOLE and SUEZ. Also starring is another frequent Power co-star, Don Ameche, who plays Power's apoplectic editor. Director Garnett directs this Howard Hawks-like feature with a breezy hand.

MARK OF ZORRO, 1940, 20th Century Fox, 94 min. Dir. Rouben Mamoulian. Tyrone Power is Don Diego de la Vega, who returns home to California from Spain in 1820. He finds his father has been ousted from power, and the new alcalde, Don Luis, is robbing the people. A lazy fop by day, Diego by night becomes the masked avenger Zorro, stealing from Don Luis’ tax collectors and redistributing to the poor.