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Directed by | William A. Wellman |
Produced by | David O. Selznick |
Written by |
Ben Hecht (screenplay) with uncredited contributions from: Budd Schulberg Ring Lardner Jr. Dorothy Parker Sidney Howard Moss Hart George S. Kaufman Robert Carson |
Based on |
Letter to the Editor 1937 short story Cosmopolitan by James H. Street |
Starring |
Carole Lombard Fredric March |
Music by | Oscar Levant |
Cinematography | W. Howard Greene |
Edited by | James E. Newcom |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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77 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,262,000 |
Nothing Sacred is an American Technicolor screwball comedy film directed in 1937 by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March. with a supporting cast featuring Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly. Ben Hecht was credited with the screenplay based on a story by James H. Street, and an array of additional writers, including Ring Lardner, Jr., Budd Schulberg, Dorothy Parker, Sidney Howard, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman and Robert Carson made uncredited contributions.
The lush, Gershwinesque music score was by Oscar Levant, with additional music by Alfred Newman and Max Steiner and a swing number by Raymond Scott's Quintette. The film was shot in Technicolor by W. Howard Greene and edited by James E. Newcom, and was a Selznick International Pictures production distributed by United Artists. In 1965, the film entered the public domain (in the United States) due to the claimants' failure to renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.