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20-498: Nothing Sacred or Nothing's Sacred may refer to: Film and television [ edit ] Nothing Sacred (film) , a 1937 American screwball comedy Nothing Sacred (TV series) , a 1997–1998 American drama series Literature [ edit ] Nothing Sacred (novel) , a 2010 novel by Boris Akunin Nothing Sacred (play) , a 1988 play by George F. Walker adapted for

40-535: A 1998 Canadian television film Nothing Sacred , a 2004 science fiction novel by Tom Flynn Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism , a 2003 book by Douglas Rushkoff Nothing's Sacred (book) , a 2005 autobiography by Lewis Black Music [ edit ] Nothing Sacred (band) , a 1980s heavy metal group Nothing Sacred (album) , by David Allan Coe, 1978 Nothing's Sacred (album) , by Lȧȧz Rockit, 1991 Nothing Sacred , an album by Babylon A.D. , 1992 " Nothing Sacred – A Song for Kirsty ",

60-702: A 2K scan of Disney's 1999 restoration, carried out on behalf of ABC , holder of most of the Selznick library. Ben Hecht's screenplay was also the basis of a Broadway musical Hazel Flagg (1953), with Helen Gallagher , as well as Living It Up (1954), a comedy film starring Dean Martin in the Winninger role, Jerry Lewis in the Lombard role (as Homer Flagg), and Janet Leigh in the March role. Sam Berman Sam Berman (July 27, 1907 – August 11, 1995)

80-556: A print run of 5 million. With a tight deadline, he created caricatures of NBC's most popular radio personalities and shows, each printed on a separate 6"x7" card, and inserted in a green vinyl slipcase. The set of 56 caricatures included Fred Allen , Jack Benny , Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Milton Berle , George Burns and Gracie Allen , Judy Canova , Eddie Cantor , Jerry Colonna , Dennis Day , Bob Hope , Eddy Howard , H. V. Kaltenborn , Kay Kyser , Art Linkletter , Robert Merrill , Frank Sinatra and Red Skelton , as well as

100-490: A role for his friend John Barrymore in the film, but David Selznick refused to use him as Barrymore had become an alcoholic. This caused a rift between Hecht and Selznick, and Hecht walked off the picture. Budd Schulberg and Dorothy Parker were called in to write the final scenes and several others also made contributions to the screenplay, including: David O. Selznick , William Wellman , Sidney Howard , Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman and Robert Carson . One reason that

120-568: A song by Russell Watson, 2002 "Nothing Sacred", a song by Memento from Beginnings , 2003 "Nothing's Sacred", a song by London After Midnight from Violent Acts of Beauty , 2007 See also [ edit ] Is Nothing Sacred? , a 1983 album by the Lords of the New Church " Is Nothing Sacred ", a 1999 song by Meat Loaf Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

140-463: A story about a woman, Hazel Flagg, reportedly dying of radium poisoning . Cook is sent to the (fictional) town of Warsaw, Vermont, to interview Hazel. Cook finally locates Hazel, who is crying both because her doctor has told her that she is not dying and because she realizes she might be stuck in Vermont for her whole life. Unaware of this, Cook invites Hazel and her doctor to New York as guests of

160-654: The Morning Star newspaper. The newspaper uses her story to increase its circulation. She receives a ticker-tape parade and the key to the city , and becomes an inspiration to many. She and Wally fall in love, and he asks her to marry him even though he still thinks she's dying. After a medical exam by three independent doctors, it is finally discovered that Hazel is not really dying, and city officials and Stone decide that it would be better to avoid embarrassment by having it seem that she went off to die, "like an elephant". Hazel and Wally get married and quietly set sail for

180-737: The 1930s and the 1940s. During World War II , he did a series depicting Nazi leaders. He worked with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in India. In 1945, as an OSS Presentation Branch graphic designer, he was attached to the UN Secretariat in San Francisco. After World War II, he made art for advertising agencies and created caricatures of leading radio performers for NBC's promotion, The NBC Parade of Stars as Seen by Sam Berman: As Heard over Your Favorite NBC Station (1947), which had

200-652: The famed mascot of Esquire magazine, who featured on the monthly's covers for several years. Later in the decade, Berman worked for Esquire's current-affairs counterpart Ken , doing a series of caricatures of political figures of the era comparing them to animals. He designed titles for Nothing Sacred (1937) and other films of the 1930s. His murals graced the walls of the Café Society club in Greenwich Village, and he illustrated Mark Hellinger 's syndicated newspaper column, "Goin' to Town", throughout

220-565: The film is a staple of bargain bin releases and collections. Although it was generally in watchable condition, until recently the best DVD was a US region 0 disc from Lumivision, later reissued by Sling Shot. In 2011, Kino Lorber issued the film on DVD and Blu-ray, mastered from a 2K scan of Selznick's personal nitrate print, preserved by the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department. In 2018, Kino reissued their Blu-ray, this time mastered from

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240-409: The film is considered among the most celebrated screwball comedies is that underneath the humor, it incorporates sharply cynical themes of corruption and dishonesty. This film, along with Hecht's The Front Page (1931) and its 1940 remake His Girl Friday with Cary Grant , caricatures the chicanery to which some newspapers resorted in order to get a "hot" story. Despite received critical acclaim,

260-528: The film recorded a loss of $ 350,000 at the box office. In July 2018, it was selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section at the 75th Venice International Film Festival . In 1965, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the copyright owners did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. Because of its public domain status,

280-597: The first use in a color film of process effects, montage and rear screen projection. Backgrounds for the rear projection were filmed on the streets of New York. Paramount Pictures and other studios refined this technique in their subsequent color features. Ben Hecht is credited with writing the screenplay in two weeks on a train. He adapted the story "Letter to the Editor" by James H. Street which had been first been published in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan . Hecht wrote

300-801: The stars of Amos 'n' Andy , A Date with Judy , Dr. I.Q. , The Great Gildersleeve , Mr. District Attorney , The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show , Truth or Consequences and Quiz Kids . His advertising art included a unique approach of caricaturing ordinary people, as seen in his Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter advertisement which ran in The Saturday Evening Post in 1955. His children's books include Pixie Pete's Christmas Party (1937), Miriam Schlein's Shapes (Scott Foresman, 1952), Dinosaur Joke Book (Grosset & Dunlap, 1969) and Sullivan Bites News: Perverse News Items by Frank Sullivan (Little, Brown, 1954). As head of his own map-making firm, he created an unusual relief map,

320-506: The title Nothing Sacred . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nothing_Sacred&oldid=1063602261 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nothing Sacred (film) The lush, Gershwinesque music score

340-457: The tropics. According to William Wellman Jr., Janet Gaynor had originally been cast as Hazel Flagg to follow on the success of A Star is Born (1937). However, after William Wellman Sr. met Carole Lombard, he convinced Selznick to cast her. A boxing world champion, Maxie Rosenbloom , gave Lombard boxing lessons to prepare her for her fight scene with Fredric March. The first screwball comedy filmed in color, Nothing Sacred also represents

360-520: Was Lombard's only feature-length Technicolor film. She stated that this film was one of her personal favorites. New York newspaper reporter Wally Cook is blamed for reporting the Harlem bootblack Ernest Walker as a nobleman "of the Orient " who is hosting a charity event. Cook claims he was unaware, but he is demoted to writing obituaries. He begs his boss Oliver Stone for another chance, and points out

380-655: Was an American caricaturist who between the 1930s and 1950s was one of the country's most notable and influential illustrators. Berman was in high school when he began drawing cartoons for the Hartford Courant . He went to New York to study art and then was given a position as a staff cartoonist for the Newark Star Eagle . During the 1930s his political cartoons were published in color in Collier's . In 1933, he and E. Simms Campbell co-created Esky,

400-530: Was by Oscar Levant , with additional music by Alfred Newman and Max Steiner and a swing number by Raymond Scott 's Quintette. The film was shot in Technicolor by W. Howard Greene and edited by James E. Newcom , and was a Selznick International Pictures production distributed by United Artists . The film's opening credits feature distinctive caricatures of the leading actors, as 3d-figurines, and creative artists, as 2d-cartoons, by Sam Berman . This

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