Movie Cosmos - Nothing Sacred

Description:

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

Top Cast >

Carole Lombard

As Hazel Flagg

Fredric March

As Wallace "Wally" Cook

Charles Winninger

As Dr. Enoch Downer

Walter Connolly

As Oliver Stone

Sig Ruman

As Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer

Frank Fay

As Master of Ceremonies

Troy Brown Sr.

As Ernest Walker

Maxie Rosenbloom

As Max Levinsky

Margaret Hamilton

As Warsaw, Vermont Drugstore Lady

Olin Howland

As Baggage Man

Billy Barty

As Boy Biting Wally's Ankle (uncredited)

Nora Cecil

As Schoolteacher (uncredited)

George Chandler

As Photographer (uncredited)

Ann Doran

As Telephone Girl (uncredited)

Claire Du Brey

As Nurse Rafferty (uncredited)

Emily Fitzroy

As Guest at Banquet (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

As Nightclub Extra (uncredited)

Tenen Holtz

As Tearful Waiter (uncredited)

Hedda Hopper

As Dowager on Ship (uncredited)

Leonid Kinskey

As Ferdinand Roassare - Poet (uncredited)

Charles Lane

As Rubenstein (uncredited)

Edwin Maxwell

As Mr. Bullock (uncredited)

Aileen Pringle

As Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)

John Qualen

As Fireman (uncredited)

Cyril Ring

As Pilot (uncredited)

Monty Woolley

As Dr. Oswald Vunch (uncredited)

Everett Brown

As Policeman (uncredited)

Hattie McDaniel

As Mrs. Walker (uncredited)

Top Crew >

William A. Wellman

Director

Reviews:

CinemaSerf (7/10)

I rather enjoyed this. Sure, it doesn't quite conform to the attitudes of the naughties, but I think that's part of it's purpose and of our progress - it really does stand back and take a swipe at virtually everything vain, empty, and shallow in a daft comedy with Carole Lombard and Frederic March. The former plays the victim of a misdiagnosis with mixed emotions. Though happy no longer to be heading for the arms of Hades, she was looking forward to using her compensation money to go out in style. March is a gullible reporter trying to repair his recently damaged reputation, who decides her story (not aware of the truth, as yet) is just what his readers want and so sets about indulging her - so off to New York she goes where she successfully ingratiates herself with society and becomes something of "draw". There is a love story with March, of less interest - though it does build nicely to the obvious question for the the conclusion.... what is going to happen when she doesn't actually die?

2022-06-20