Won't get fooled again

Nothing Sacred

(1937)

Carole Lombard can cover a multitude of sins, but it's hard to see why this is widely accorded "classic" status: there are a few good gags but lots of lame ones, and while I get that standards of racial and ethnic humor were different then--not to mention humor based on violence between the sexes--much of this is just flat out hard to watch.

The nut of the story--fraud as served by journalism--is potentially nourishing enough that this is one '30s screwball that could use a Fox News-era remake.