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Ben Hecht has been squinting at "The Front Page" again and, with one eye crinkled shut and the other sardonically glinting, he has written an impiously impish comedy about that recurrent ...
Feb 4, 2019 · “Nothing Sacred” is Hecht’s Sinclair Lewis novel on film. What was his problem with Hollywood, anyway? Hoffman puzzles over it at length.
Nov 20, 2008 · Probably the best role Lombard ever had was that of a Vermont woman named Hazel Flagg, who, in William A. Wellman’s “Nothing Sacred” (1937), fakes a fatal illness just so she can live it up ...
Nov 22, 2018 · A clever screwball comedy with a stellar performance by Carole Lombard. Synopsis: An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit. (IMDB)
Apr 8, 2021 · That said, the New York Times film critic (and perpetual curmudgeon) Bosley Crowther penned a tongue-in-cheek review declaring that Nothing Sacred brought about the “demise of fragile femininity” in Hollywood cinema.
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.
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Jan 1, 2000 · Simple, innocent Carole Lombard is diagnosed as having a fatal illness and wants to see New York before she dies, whereupon fast-talking slimeball newsman March makes a popular heroine of her...