Nothing Sacred - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[darrell]

The first screwball comedy filmed in color.

[carl]

After one fight scene with Fredric March, Carole Lombard had to take the following day off to recuperate from her scratches and bruises. To discourage the attentions of March--a notorious womanizer--she invited him to her dressing room one night; after preliminary fumbling, March discovered to his disgust that she was wearing a rubber dildo. He never bothered her again.

[jesus]

Betty Miles's debut.

[alyssa]

In the scene where Wally is convincing Hazel, while walking down the sidewalk, to go with him to New York City seen in the background is a poster of a skier on the wood fencing. That poster is the "Mont - Revard - Ecole de Ski Poster". An original in good condition can be had (2020) for around $3,000.

[terry]

The earliest documented telecast of this film occurred Monday 23 October 1944 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1). Although, prior to a 1948 telecast of this film, some historians contend that theatrical films were broadcast on TV uncut from beginning to end without commercial breaks, but on a Sunday night in 1948, just prior to a telecasting of a hockey match from Madison Square Garden that would have ended the broadcasting day at 11 p.m., this film was shown without opening credits and was interrupted by a single 60-second commercial. According to an article by film historian Don Miller in the August-September 1961 issue of "Films in Review," this marked the first time a motion picture was telecast with a commercial break, but this information has since been proven dubious. In Los Angeles, this film was first telecast Sunday 19 September 1948 on KTLA (Channel 5), in Baltimore Sunday 14 November 1948 on WMAR (Channel 2), in Buffalo Saturday 29 January 1949 on WBEN (Channel 4), in Atlanta Wednesday 9 February 1949 on WSB (Channel 8), in Dayton Tuesday 1 March 1949 on WHIO (Channel 13), in Detroit Sunday 13 March 1949 on WWJ (Channel 4), in Cincinnati Sunday 11 September 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7) and in Chicago Sunday 26 February 1950 on WNBQ (Channel 5); all these early broadcasts were, of course, in B&W.

[harry]

This movie''s running time--under 75 minute--is short enough that by modern MPAA standards, it would technically not qualify as a "feature film." In 2018 a "feature" must be at least 80 minutes long.

[janice]

French visa # 2576

[nicholas]

The role of Hazel Flagg was originally intended for Janet Gaynor after the huge success of A Star Is Born (1937).

[clayton]

The town of Warsaw, VT, is fictional.

[amber]

Carole Lombard said that this was one of her favorites of the films she made.

[jim]

Finnish video censorship certificate #T-21592 delivered on 9-9-1993.

[darrell]

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.

[eli]

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.