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
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- Boy Biting Wally's Ankle
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- Minor Role
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- Policeman
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- Secretary
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- 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
March is Wally Cook, a reporter in hot water for writing about the Sultan of Brunai who in reality is a regular Joe working in New York with a wife who identifies him while he's making pronouncements. Wally goes to Vermont to hunt down a story about a woman dying of radium poisoning and finds her in the person of Hazel Flagg (Lombard). Hazel has just gotten some very bad news from her doctor (Charles Winninger) - she's not dying. The diagnosis was a mistake. She had hopes of taking a trip out of Vermont that was offered to her and asks the doctor to keep the new diagnosis of health quiet. Soon after, she meets Wally, who wants to bring her to New York for a last fling at the expense of the paper, which will follow her until her last poisoned breath. Hazel agrees and takes the doctor with her. At first, she has a blast with only the occasional twinge of guilt. Then a German specialist is brought in and blows Hazel's scam all to hell.
One of the comments had it right - this story predates reality shows by something like 63 years. Hazel, like so many today, is an ersatz celebrity, famous for being famous. What will never change is milking a subject for profit until it's dry. Nothing Sacred has some hilarious scenes and great lines, including the big fight scene in the hotel when Wally tries to make Hazel seem ill by forcing her to fight with him in order to sweat and raise her pulse rate. The nightclub scene is a riot.
Lombard is beautiful and wears some stunning outfits and gowns, a gift to Hazel from the newspaper. She was a very adept actress with a wonderful sense of comedy. How sad that she is in a film about dying young and would do so five years later at the age of 34. She and March do a great job together - he's normally not known for his comedy but does well here. He approach to Wally is serious and he plays Wally's intensity and affection for Hazel for all it's worth. Connelly as his editor is fabulous, as is Winninger as the doctor who drinks his way through New York.
Nothing Sacred has been a musical, Hazel Flagg, and remade as Living it Up (with Jerry Lewis as Homer Flagg). Most recently, the general plot was reworked as Last Holiday. See the original in the screwball comedy genre which is, alas, no more.
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Dettagli
Botteghino
- Budget
- 1.831.927 USD (previsto)
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 3.765 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 17 minuti
- Proporzioni
- 1.33 : 1