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Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred

  • Status: Released
  • 25-11-1937
  • Runtime: 77 min
  • Score: 6.2
  • Vote count: 104

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

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)

Aileen Pringle

Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)

John Qualen

Fireman (uncredited)

Cyril Ring

Pilot (uncredited)

Monty Woolley

Dr. Oswald Vunch (uncredited)

Everett Brown

Policeman (uncredited)

Hattie McDaniel

Mrs. Walker (uncredited)

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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?