Nothing Sacred
SEE THE BIG FIGHT!
1937 | 77m | English
Popularity: 0.9 (history)
| Director: | William A. Wellman |
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| Writer: | Ben Hecht, James H. Street |
| Staring: |
| When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 25, 1937 |
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| Director: | William A. Wellman |
| Writer: | Ben Hecht, James H. Street |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | new york city, newspaper, radium, reporter, screwball comedy, vermont, faking illness |
| Production Companies | Selznick International Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
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| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Carole Lombard | Hazel Flagg |
| Fredric March | Wallace "Wally" Cook |
| Charles Winninger | Dr. Enoch Downer |
| Walter Connolly | Oliver Stone |
| Sig Ruman | Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer |
| Frank Fay | Master of Ceremonies |
| Troy Brown Sr. | Ernest Walker |
| Maxie Rosenbloom | Max Levinsky |
| Margaret Hamilton | Warsaw, Vermont Drugstore Lady |
| Olin Howland | Baggage Man |
| Billy Barty | Boy Biting Wally's Ankle (uncredited) |
| Nora Cecil | Schoolteacher (uncredited) |
| George Chandler | Photographer (uncredited) |
| Ann Doran | Telephone Girl (uncredited) |
| Claire Du Brey | Nurse Rafferty (uncredited) |
| Emily Fitzroy | Guest at Banquet (uncredited) |
| Bess Flowers | Nightclub Extra (uncredited) |
| Tenen Holtz | Tearful Waiter (uncredited) |
| Hedda Hopper | Dowager on Ship (uncredited) |
| Leonid Kinskey | Ferdinand Roassare - Poet (uncredited) |
| Charles Lane | Rubenstein (uncredited) |
| Edwin Maxwell | Mr. Bullock (uncredited) |
| Hattie McDaniel | Mrs. Walker (uncredited) |
| Aileen Pringle | Mrs. Bullock (uncredited) |
| John Qualen | Fireman (uncredited) |
| Cyril Ring | Pilot (uncredited) |
| Monty Woolley | Dr. Oswald Vunch (uncredited) |
| Everett Brown | Policeman (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Oscar Levant | Original Music Composer |
| Walter Plunkett | Costume Design |
| William A. Wellman | Director |
| Ben Hecht | Screenplay |
| William Cameron Menzies | Second Unit |
| James E. Newcom | Editor |
| Lyle R. Wheeler | Art Direction |
| Fred Spencer | Assistant Director |
| W. Howard Greene | Director of Photography |
| Jack Cosgrove | Special Effects |
| James H. Street | Story |
| Travis Banton | Costume Designer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| David O. Selznick | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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I rather enjoyed this. Sure, it doesn't quite conform to the attitudes of the naughties, but I think that's part of it's purpose and of our progress - it really does stand back and take a swipe at virtually everything vain, empty, and shallow in a daft comedy with Carole Lombard and Frederic March. ... The former plays the victim of a misdiagnosis with mixed emotions. Though happy no longer to be heading for the arms of Hades, she was looking forward to using her compensation money to go out in style. March is a gullible reporter trying to repair his recently damaged reputation, who decides her story (not aware of the truth, as yet) is just what his readers want and so sets about indulging her - so off to New York she goes where she successfully ingratiates herself with society and becomes something of "draw". There is a love story with March, of less interest - though it does build nicely to the obvious question for the the conclusion.... what is going to happen when she doesn't actually die?