November 11 movie: Nothing Sacred. This was a deranged movie with Carol Lombard as a young woman from a small town in Vermont who pretends to be dying of radiation poisoning. Fredric March is the NY reporter who needs a big story to revive his career, so he brings her to the big city where all Manhattan falls in love with the brave dying girl. We're supposed to sympathize with Lombard when she tries to extricate herself but can't, but it wasn't clear to me why she made up this horrible lie in the first place. I didn't enjoy this movie because I couldn't get over the premise. It's hard to root for someone who would do such a thing, even if she is Carol Lombard.
One funny thing: the publisher of March's newspaper is named Oliver Stone. This yields the hilarious line "I can't stand that phony Santy Claus Oliver Stone slobbering and drooling over me!"
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