Final Thoughts:
How the makers of these films chose to navigate these scandals — and how the public responded — really seems to have depended on when the scandals happened. This seems especially true of the pre- and post-internet eras.
For example, Hugh Grant was able to pretty much undo his scandal and save his film with just a couple of charming TV appearances. In the internet era, though, it’s unlikely that cheating on his long-term partner with a sex worker would go so swimmingly.
Similarly, would Paramount have been able to get away with so cravenly pushing up the release date of Another Time, Another Place in hopes of financially capitalizing on Lana Turner’s tragic situation? I doubt it — the backlash would have been swift, forceful, and RT’d over and over.
