Nothing Sacred (film)

Nothing Sacred is a 1937 Technicolor screwball comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March. with a supporting cast featuring Walter Connolly, Charles Winninger, Margaret Hamilton, Hattie McDaniel, Frank Fay and Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom. Ben Hecht was credited with the screenplay based on a story by James H. Street, and an array of additional writers, including Ring Lardner, Jr., Budd Schulberg, Dorothy Parker, Sidney Howard, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman and Robert Carson made uncredited contributions.

New York newspaper reporter Wally Cook Fredric March is blamed for passing off an ordinary black man Troy Brown as an African nobleman hosting a charity event despite his claims of not knowing this was false. Cook is demoted to writing obituaries. He begs his boss Oliver Stone Walter Connolly for another chance. Wally is sent to the fictional town of Warsaw, Vermont, to interview Hazel Flagg Carole Lombard, a woman supposedly dying of radium poisoning. Cook finally locates Hazel, who is crying because her doctor has told her that she is not dying. Unaware of this, he invites her to New York as the guest of the Morning Star newspaper.The newspaper uses her story to increase its circulation. She receives a ticker tape parade and the key to the city, and becomes an inspiration to many. In addition, she and Wally fall in love. When it is finally discovered that Hazel is not really dying, city officials decide that it would be better to avoid embarrassment by having it seem that she committed suicide. Hazel and Wally get married and quietly set sail for the tropics. ........

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