7/10
Comedy about a woman who plays death sick to get to New York for free. The consequences are far greater than she could have imagined ... Feels modern despite from the 1930's!
I was surprised to find a simple screwball comedy from 1937 was made in full Technicolor, but that's Nothing Sacred! As the genre demands, the film mocks high society through a newspaper editor and his star reporter (Fredric March, on the outs because he was the victim of a hoax and in need of a big scoop) falling for ANOTHER fake news story, this one about Carole Lombard's character misdiagnosed with fatal radium sickness, but willing to go on the wild media ride so she can "win" a trip to New York. Romance ensues, though for one of them, it seems like that love is doomed. Whether it's satirizing New York high society's way of taking an interest in any given sob story, or doing quick patter and slapstick, Nothing Sacred gets the laughs. I howled a number of times. And I also appreciate how it's SHOT for comedy, with amusing staging enlivening scenes that might otherwise have come off as ordinary.
This held my attention -- a distinct story about a dying girl who's not really dying, given the royal treatment by a New York paper. The newspaperman loves her, she gets guilty about being lavishly treated. A good comedy with a different and worthwhile theme: be warned of the plasticity of the city lights; there is "nothing sacred" in New York.
It's stunning to think that a story in such incredibly bad taste could be made under the Production Code of the time. It's like a Mel Brooks script got sent back in time 40 years.
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daisyaday
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Decent enough comedy written by the brilliant Ben Hecht. Contains a very minor character called Mo Lewinsky - which is quite the funny coincidence.junegoon
Funny flickEmiam
7/10Comedy about a woman who plays death sick to get to New York for free. The consequences are far greater than she could have imagined ... Feels modern despite from the 1930's!
Siskoid
I was surprised to find a simple screwball comedy from 1937 was made in full Technicolor, but that's Nothing Sacred! As the genre demands, the film mocks high society through a newspaper editor and his star reporter (Fredric March, on the outs because he was the victim of a hoax and in need of a big scoop) falling for ANOTHER fake news story, this one about Carole Lombard's character misdiagnosed with fatal radium sickness, but willing to go on the wild media ride so she can "win" a trip to New York. Romance ensues, though for one of them, it seems like that love is doomed. Whether it's satirizing New York high society's way of taking an interest in any given sob story, or doing quick patter and slapstick, Nothing Sacred gets the laughs. I howled a number of times. And I also appreciate how it's SHOT for comedy, with amusing staging enlivening scenes that might otherwise have come off as ordinary.inhonoredglory
This held my attention -- a distinct story about a dying girl who's not really dying, given the royal treatment by a New York paper. The newspaperman loves her, she gets guilty about being lavishly treated. A good comedy with a different and worthwhile theme: be warned of the plasticity of the city lights; there is "nothing sacred" in New York.Ray Anselmo
It's stunning to think that a story in such incredibly bad taste could be made under the Production Code of the time. It's like a Mel Brooks script got sent back in time 40 years.