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Nothing Sacred

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Certain she was dying from radium poisoning, Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) is delighted to learn from her doctor that it was a false alarm. But when dapper and desperate New York City reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) shows up looking for a story about a young girl braving terminal illness, Hazel decides that she's sick again. Wally whisks her off to Manhattan, where her supposed courage wins her many admirers. The toast of the town, she falls in love with Wally and dreads being discovered.
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Ann Ross Maclean's Magazine 07/18/2019
The principals are excellent as usual, and have the additional fine support of Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly. Go to Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 12/22/2018
3/4
The perpetual digs against journalists are especially amusing, as when someone cracks that even "the hand of God reaching down into the mire couldn't elevate one of them to the depths of degradation!" Go to Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid 01/07/2012
Wellman knew to keep this story short -- it runs just 73 minutes -- and speedy. And yet he understands how to conduct it so that it's more than just breakneck comedy. Go to Full Review Steve Crum Video-Reviewmaster.com 03/23/2008
5/5
Classically funny Wellman screwball comedy starring wonderful Lombard, equalled by March. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 05/30/2007
A-
Sophisticated, well-oiled 1930s screwball comedy. Go to Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 09/15/2006
A
The film has been perceived as a satire on yellow journalism due to Hect'd experience. There's a key line in which a NY journalst is told: A Newspaperman? The hand of God reaching down into the mire couldn't elevate one of them to the depth of degradation Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Madam D Mar 11 This "comedy" is sickening. Supposedly a woman dying of radium poisoning is faking it. The real women who died of radium lived through hell due to capitalistic pigs who wanted to make money. Why would anyone think it was funny to make this film? See more Jarrod R 01/20/2024 What a delightful surprise for a cold winter's afternoon. 
 Carole Lombard is incandescent. I'm star struck to say the least. And Fredric March is enough to keep up with her comedic timing. Highly recommend, keep king in mind a few problematic scenes, but not as glaring as some from that era. See more Steve D 01/08/2024 Too over the top for me. See more Luca D @JoeCamel7 02/19/2023 Loose plot, great acting. I really like the quote when they're sitting in the shipping crate about how most people only get a few good hours of happiness. The quote made me think about how when we feel happiness we should really take it hour by hour, because that is all that some people get from life. See more 12/26/2021 William Wellman was really a helluva director. Anyone that can do a movie like this, and make "The Ox-Bow Incident" too, must have been born to direct. Coming in at a breezy 75 minutes, "Nothing Sacred" is still very funny on several levels, for several different reasons. Plot does not matter as much as execution, and how you deliver a line matters more than the line itself. Frederic March and Carole Lombard are perfect, and the supporting cast is just as good, especially the actor who played 'Oliver Stone', March's frustrated boss. Wellman does unconventional things like make the actors faces be hidden by a tree branch, practically unheard of in that day and age. But the fact of the matter is, that sometimes people are not perfectly framed in life, so maybe they shouldn't be in the movies - at least not as a rule. The first time you get a good look at Lombard, she has shaving cream on her face from kissing a man who is shaving - also not the normal star-moment you might expect. See more william d @acsdoug 06/24/2020 Genuinely amusing, Carole Lombard is terrific. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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William A. Wellman

Director

Carole Lombard

Hazel Flagg

Fredric March

Wally Cook

Charles Winninger

Dr. Enoch Downer

Walter Connolly

Oliver Stone

Sig Ruman

Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer

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Synopsis Certain she was dying from radium poisoning, Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) is delighted to learn from her doctor that it was a false alarm. But when dapper and desperate New York City reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) shows up looking for a story about a young girl braving terminal illness, Hazel decides that she's sick again. Wally whisks her off to Manhattan, where her supposed courage wins her many admirers. The toast of the town, she falls in love with Wally and dreads being discovered.
Director
William A. Wellman
Producer
David O. Selznick
Screenwriter
Ben Hecht
Production Co
Selznick International Pictures
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 25, 1937, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 11, 2016
Runtime
1h 15m
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