Film: Forever Screwball, Forever Fearless
New York Times (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Probably the best role Lombard ever had was that of a Vermont woman named Hazel Flagg, who, in William A. Wellman’s (1937), fakes a fatal illness just so she can live it up for a while — at the expense of a circulation-greedy tabloid — in glamorous Manhattan. “Nothing Sacred,” written by the former Chicago reporter Ben Hecht (who, with Charles MacArthur, also wrote “Twentieth Century”), is one...
