Una donna eccentrica scopre che non sta morendo di avvelenamento da radio come ipotizzato in precedenza, ma quando incontra un giornalista in cerca di una storia, finge di nuovo di essere ma... Leggi tuttoUna donna eccentrica scopre che non sta morendo di avvelenamento da radio come ipotizzato in precedenza, ma quando incontra un giornalista in cerca di una storia, finge di nuovo di essere malata per il proprio tornaconto.Una donna eccentrica scopre che non sta morendo di avvelenamento da radio come ipotizzato in precedenza, ma quando incontra un giornalista in cerca di una storia, finge di nuovo di essere malata per il proprio tornaconto.
- Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer
- (as Sig Rumann)
- Ernest Walker
- (as Troy Brown)
- Novelty Swing Orchestra
- (as Raymond Scott and his Quintette)
- 'Pocahontas'
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- Nightclub Patron
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
- Boy Biting Wally's Ankle
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
- Minor Role
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- Policeman
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
- Secretary
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
- Guest at Banquet
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Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizBen Hecht wrote a role for his friend John Barrymore, but David O. Selznick refused to hire Barrymore due to his alcohol abuse. Hecht refused to work on any more drafts and quit the film.
- BlooperThey are inconsistent with the volume numbers on issues of The Morning Star. When Hazel first arrives in New York, the front page says it's issue is in Volume 27. Several days later, when Hazel blacks out from drinking too much, it's listed as being in Volume 22 (which would be roughly five years earlier in most real world publications).
- Citazioni
Wally Cook: For good clean fun, there's nothing like a wake.
Hazel Flagg: Oh please, let's not talk shop.
- Curiosità sui creditiEach of the stars' names is shown on a title card set beside a plaster caricature. The rest of the cast have caricatures alongside their names in the credits.
- Versioni alternativeAlso available in a Cinecolor version "In Color". The credit for Natalie Kalmus as Technicolor Consultant is missing from this version.
- ConnessioniEdited into Your Afternoon Movie: Nothing Sacred (2022)
- Colonne sonoreGive My Regards to Broadway
(1904) (uncredited)
Music by George M. Cohan
Arranged by Raymond Scott
Performed by Raymond Scott and His Quintet
Played for Frank Fay's entrance
The inspiration for this film comes from the fertile imagination of Ben Hecht best known previously for co-authoring another newspaper classic, The Front Page. Hecht takes it a step further and while the Morning Post reports the news faster and better than its rivals, it doesn't create the news. Here the media is satirized for creating a celebrity.
Poor Carole Lombard as Hazel Flagg, country girl from rural Vermont who is misdiagnosed by her country doctor Charles Winninger as having incurable radiation poisoning. It's a small news item over the wire services.
But when hotshot reporter Fredric March gets a hold of it, he convinces his editor Walter Connolly to build up the story by bringing Lombard to New York and ballyhooing her into celebrity status. Lombard and Winninger by now know an error in diagnosis was made, but who can turn down an all expense paid trip to New York? The story just mushrooms until it gets away from any kind of control.
The difference sometimes between comedy and drama is often so slight as to be imperceptible. There's not much difference between Fredric March's character in Nothing Sacred and Kirk Douglas's in Ace in the Hole. Both are down on their luck newspaper people looking for a comeback and both exploit a story to their own ends, March comically and Douglas tragically. But the plots are more similar than one realizes.
Even today we still hunger for our celebrities some of whom are nothing but professional celebrities. The sad life of Anna Nicole Smith is proof of that.
When you think about Anna Nicole Smith though Nothing Sacred appears dated it actually has a very timeless message about the power of media to create and destroy.
- bkoganbing
- 16 mag 2007
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Dettagli
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- Budget
- 1.831.927 USD (previsto)
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 3.765 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 17 minuti
- Proporzioni
- 1.33 : 1