Fredric March News

EXISTED! Nor was there such an actual person or occurrence on which to base the scene where Brown and his fellow Bible-thumping Christians "sentence" the innocent youths to hades.

Carol Lombard and Frederic March show off their classic profiles in "Nothing Sacred." Lombard was at the height of her success in this film.

Brevity is a severely undervalued trait in film - and in film comedy in particular. Witness the succinct hilarity in William Wellman's 1937 screwball feature Nothing Sacred .

The first half of screwball comedy Nothing Sacred crackles with snappy dialogue and absurd situations handled with razor-sharp comic timing.

It's strange how, in retrospect and upon reflection, a film like Ernst Lubitsch's 1933 romantic comedy Design for Living seems radical, utopian, and revolutionary while at the same time remaining about as affable and instantaneously appealing and gratifying as practically anything you've ever seen as it crackles with intelligence and wit.