Slander (1957 film)

Slander is a 1957 American drama film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Van Johnson, Ann Blyth and Steve Cochran. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film centers on a scandal magazine similar to the real-life Confidential and Whisper gossip magazines, which had published "smear" stories about many celebrities, including Johnson.

Despite the film's title, its plot concerns written material, which would possibly become the grounds for defamation litigation as the tort of libel, not slander, which applies only to oral communication. Furthermore, defamation suits only have legal merit if the content is proven to be false, but the plot centers on the publication of a factual event in a man's past that he admits to be truthful.