8pm Friday NOTHING SACRED - Comedy/Drama
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.
Certain she was dying from radium poisoning, Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) is delighted to learn from her doctor that it was a false alarm. But when dapper and desperate New York City reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) shows up looking for a story about a young girl braving terminal illness, Hazel decides that she's sick again. Wally whisks her off to Manhattan, where her supposed courage wins her many admirers. The toast of the town, she falls in love with Wally and dreads being discovered.
TRIVIA
- When this film was re-released in 1945 by Film Classics, it was not deemed important enough to be reprinted in Technicolor. Prints were struck in the less expensive--and far inferior--Cinecolor process, and this was the only way it was to be seen for the next 40 years, until its Technicolor restoration in the 1980s.
- The role of Hazel Flagg was originally intended for Janet Gaynor after the huge success of A Star Is Born (1937).
- Remade as the Dean Martin / Jerry Lewis comedy Living It Up (1954), with Lewis playing the Carole Lombard character, Martin playing the doctor and Janet Leigh replacing Fredric March.
