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- 1937
- TV-PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 17 m
- 1937
- TV-PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 17 m
Summary An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
- 1937
- TV-PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 17 m
- 1937
- TV-PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 17 m
Nothing Sacred
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6.2
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Summary An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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85% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
78
85% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Amazingly cynical and howlingly funny. [13 Jan 1994, p.10]
Ben Hecht supplied the cynically amusing script, but the brilliant Lombard makes it fly — wringing laughs from an arsenal of loopy gestures and cacophonous outbursts.
A delirious send-up of bandwagon piety, the film was scripted by that snappiest of Hollywood crank cases, Ben Hecht, and he never got a better, more committed distaff embodiment of his flair for highlighting hooey than Lombard, who throws herself into the role with daffy, tongue-tripping abandon.
Briskly paced under the direction of William Wellman, the caustic comedy by Ben Hecht treads harshly on many a taboo. [16 May 1999, p.5]
Hecht handles the material breezily and pungently, poking fun in typical manner of half-scorn at the newspaper publisher, his reporter, doctors, the newspaper business, phonies, suckers, and whatnot.
Despite the luminous Lombard and the venomous March, this is perhaps better for its idea than its execution.
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Generally Favorable
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Generally Favorable
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6.2
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Production Company
Selznick International Pictures
Release Date Nov 26, 1937
Duration 1 h 17 m
Rating TV-PG
Tagline YOU LITTLE LOW-DOWN, DOUBLE-CROSSING FAKE...I love you! (original print ad - Lubbock Morning Avalanche - Palace Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - Jan. 16, 1938)
