Nothing Sacred

Spoiler on the original poster!

Nothing Sacred
United Artists
November 25, 1937
Comedy, Romance
DVD
C+

I really don't know what I think of this movie and I was on the C/C+ fence in the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes.  Ultimately, I can marginally recommend it, for its cast and some of its script.  I like some of the offbeat humor, like the Calvin Coolidge joke (yes, I am the world's oldest 52-year-old), as well as its observations about the press.  Given the title, I guess I shouldn't be too shocked that a couple has a fistfight, while declaring their love, even though he keeps telling her to shut up and she's lied to him and the world, especially New York City, about having radium poisoning.  This is that odd movie that is a comedy and a romance without at all being a romcom, although, yeah, it's got a heck of a meet-cute.

William A. Wellman directed this eighteen years before Blood Alley.

My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey

Universal

September 6, 1936

Comedy
DVD
C-

I've seen this all the way through once or twice, but to be honest, I've never warmed up to it.  This time, it seemed a bit shrill and unfunny, although of course Lombard's wardrobe is great and there are scattered good lines in the first quarter-hour.  Based on the Eric Hatch novel 1101 Park Avenue and directed by Gregory La Cava.