It was remade as a vehicle for Martin & Lewis and turned into a
Broadway musical but William Wellman's original was a gold-plated joy
from start to finish. I suppose you could call "Nothing Sacred" a satire
on sensationalism in the newspaper business or maybe just one of the
funniest movies ever made, (the writer was Ben Hecht working at the top
of his game). It's the one about the girl dying of radium poisoning
who
then discovers she isn't but keeps the pretence up anyway, (yes, it's a
comedy perhaps not in the best of taste), and it has great performances
from Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger and Walter
Connolly, magnificent as the gruff editor of the newspaper March works
for. Indeed the only fault I can find with the film is the decision to
shoot it in colour, however pretty it might look.
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