NOTHING SACRED (1937) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - William A. Wellman

Written by - Ben Hecht, James H. Street, Robert Carson, Moss Hart, Sidney Howard, George S. Kaufman, Ring Lardiner Jr., George Oppenheimer, Budd Schultzberg, David O. Selznick, William A. Wellman

Starring - Carole Lombard, Frederic March, Charles Wininger, Walter Connolly

"A newspaperman looking for a story thinks he has found it in a Vermont girl who is dying from radium poisoning. He takes her to New York and complicates things by falling for her, without realising that she is faking her condition for a trip to the big city. A stand out screwball comedy which, like other ones of its time, satirises on the world of newspaper and the cunning nature of journalists who go through any length to get their story. However, apart from the subject which is still very inherent to this day being dealt in a witty way, it is the cheeky and racy nature of the individual sequences which really make it stand out, along fun performances by March and Lombard."

Romantic Comedy, USA