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Nothing Sacred [DVD] [1937]
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Language:English
: Program Type:Movie
: Studio:Kino
: Region Code:0
: Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
: Format:DVD
: Product Name:Nothing Sacred [DVD] [1937]
: Product Tags:DVD
""This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye..."" With this jaundiced opening title, scripter Ben Hecht introduces his classic comedy Nothing Sacred. Fredric March plays Wally Cook, a hotshot reporter condemned to writing obituaries because of his unwitting complicity in a fraud. Anxious to get back in the good graces of his editor Oliver Stone (Walter Connolly), Cook pounces on the story of New England girl Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard), who is reportedly dying from radiation poisoning. Actually, Hazel isn't dying at all; she's been misdiagnosed by Moscow's eternally drunk doctor (Charles Winninger). But when Cook offers to take her on an all-expenses-paid trip to New York in exchange for her exclusive story, it's too good an offer to pass up. Once in the Big Apple, Hazel is feted as a heroine by the novelty-seeking populac; she enjoys the adulation at first, but soon (and with the help of gallons of alcoholic beverages) suffers the pangs of conscience. She confesses her deception to Cook, who by now has fallen in love with her. Cook and Stone conspire to keep the public from discovering the truth, eventually dreaming up a phony suicide. Travelling incognito to avoid arrest, Wally and Hazel marry and go on a honeymoon, secure in the knowledge that New York City has forgotten all about her and moved on to their next fad. Brimming with witty, acerbic dialogue and hilarious bits of physical business, Nothing Sacred is among the best ""screwball"" comedies of the 1930s. The musical score by Oscar Levant both mocks and celebrates the George Gershwinesque musical style then in vogue. As an added bonus, the film is lensed in Technicolor (avoid those two-color reissue prints), allowing modern viewers to see what New York City looked liked back in 1937. Nothing Sacred was later adapted into a Broadway musical, Hazel Flagg, which in turn was filmed by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as Living It Up (1954), with Lewis in the Carole Lombard role.~Hal Erickson
Name : Carole Lombard: Role : Hazel Flagg
Name : Fredric March: Role : Wally Cook
Name : Charles Winninger: Role : Dr. Enoch Downer
Name : Walter Connolly: Role : Oliver Stone
Name : Sig Rumann: Role : Dr. Emile Egglehoffer
Name : Frank Fay: Role : Master of Ceremonies
Name : ""Slapsie Maxie"" Rosenbloom: Role : Max Levinsky
Name : Alexander Schoenberg: Role : Dr. Kerchinwisser
Name : Alex Novinsky: Role : Dr. Marachuffsky
Name : Aileen Pringle: Role : Mrs. Bullock
Name : William Wellman: Role : Director
Name : David O. Selznick: Role : Producer
Name : Ben Hecht: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Budd Schulberg: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Ring Lardner, Jr.: Role : Screenwriter
Name : W. Howard Greene: Role : Cinematographer
Name : Louis Forbes: Role : Musical Direction/Supervision
Name : Oscar Levant: Role : Composer (Music Score)
Name : Hal Kern: Role : Editor
Name : James Newcom: Role : Editor
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: Program Type:Movie
: Studio:Kino
: Region Code:0
: Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
: Format:DVD
: Product Name:Nothing Sacred [DVD] [1937]
: Product Tags:DVD
""This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye..."" With this jaundiced opening title, scripter Ben Hecht introduces his classic comedy Nothing Sacred. Fredric March plays Wally Cook, a hotshot reporter condemned to writing obituaries because of his unwitting complicity in a fraud. Anxious to get back in the good graces of his editor Oliver Stone (Walter Connolly), Cook pounces on the story of New England girl Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard), who is reportedly dying from radiation poisoning. Actually, Hazel isn't dying at all; she's been misdiagnosed by Moscow's eternally drunk doctor (Charles Winninger). But when Cook offers to take her on an all-expenses-paid trip to New York in exchange for her exclusive story, it's too good an offer to pass up. Once in the Big Apple, Hazel is feted as a heroine by the novelty-seeking populac; she enjoys the adulation at first, but soon (and with the help of gallons of alcoholic beverages) suffers the pangs of conscience. She confesses her deception to Cook, who by now has fallen in love with her. Cook and Stone conspire to keep the public from discovering the truth, eventually dreaming up a phony suicide. Travelling incognito to avoid arrest, Wally and Hazel marry and go on a honeymoon, secure in the knowledge that New York City has forgotten all about her and moved on to their next fad. Brimming with witty, acerbic dialogue and hilarious bits of physical business, Nothing Sacred is among the best ""screwball"" comedies of the 1930s. The musical score by Oscar Levant both mocks and celebrates the George Gershwinesque musical style then in vogue. As an added bonus, the film is lensed in Technicolor (avoid those two-color reissue prints), allowing modern viewers to see what New York City looked liked back in 1937. Nothing Sacred was later adapted into a Broadway musical, Hazel Flagg, which in turn was filmed by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as Living It Up (1954), with Lewis in the Carole Lombard role.~Hal Erickson
Name : Carole Lombard: Role : Hazel Flagg
Name : Fredric March: Role : Wally Cook
Name : Charles Winninger: Role : Dr. Enoch Downer
Name : Walter Connolly: Role : Oliver Stone
Name : Sig Rumann: Role : Dr. Emile Egglehoffer
Name : Frank Fay: Role : Master of Ceremonies
Name : ""Slapsie Maxie"" Rosenbloom: Role : Max Levinsky
Name : Alexander Schoenberg: Role : Dr. Kerchinwisser
Name : Alex Novinsky: Role : Dr. Marachuffsky
Name : Aileen Pringle: Role : Mrs. Bullock
Name : William Wellman: Role : Director
Name : David O. Selznick: Role : Producer
Name : Ben Hecht: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Budd Schulberg: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Ring Lardner, Jr.: Role : Screenwriter
Name : W. Howard Greene: Role : Cinematographer
Name : Louis Forbes: Role : Musical Direction/Supervision
Name : Oscar Levant: Role : Composer (Music Score)
Name : Hal Kern: Role : Editor
Name : James Newcom: Role : Editor
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