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Nothing Sacred (David O. Selznick) is a spirited little comedy about a girl who is slowly dying of radium poisoning. It is a comedy because Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) and Dr. Downer (Charles Winninger), her Warsaw, Vt. physician, know that she isn't really dying at all. But by the time Downer finds he has made a mistake in his diagnosis, the story about Hazel has appeared in the New York Morning Star. Reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) takes her away from Warsaw. He is in trouble with his managing editor (Walter Connolly) and Hazel is his peace offering...
...fills the king's shoes during the coronation period. Ruler for a day, he has the misfortune to fall in love with the king's betrothed, lovely Madeliene Carroll. That in the end they have to part does something to one's faith in Cupid or David O. Selznick, Jr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, turns in a superb performance as the delightfully unscrupulous Rupert of Hentzau. Though Mr. Coleman has might and right on his side, he looks a little wan when he has to share a scene with Mr. Fairbanks...
...Governor Frank F. Merriam, ensconced behind a large box of fresh-mixed concrete. Announcing that Culver City no longer coveted her neighbor's name, President Walker with a splendid gesture passed over to the Hollywood camp a box inscribed, "Culver City presents to Hollywood the Culver City-made Selznick International Picture, The Prisoner of Zenda. Before anyone could say Selznick he plunged a shiny hatchet deep in the moist cement. Ten minutes later, The Prisoner of Zenda opened at the Chinese Theatre...
...Major ones: Selznick International, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hal Roach...
...mighty brisk bout of swordplay with Douglas Fairbanks. Even the tried-&-true finale will seem to a reasonably sentimental audience as good-enough as old-time religion. Because there is a tiny hamlet in Canada (Zenda, Ont.) named in honor of The Prisoner of Zenda, far-fetching Selznick Publicity Man Russell Birdwell fetched Zenda's entire population (12) down to the Manhattan opening by plane. Few Zenda-ites had ever been outside their farming countryside: none had ever flown. In Manhattan they were lodged at a hotel, sent on a tour of the city, flown back two days later...