Details

Release year: 1937

Storyline

An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.

Top credits

Directors

William A. Wellman

Writers

Cast

Carole Lombard — Hazel Flagg
Fredric March — Wally Cook
Charles Winninger — Dr. Enoch Downer
Walter Connolly — Oliver Stone

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Did you know

• Ben Hecht wrote a role for his friend John Barrymore, but David O. Selznick refused to hire Barrymore due to his alcohol abuse. Hecht refused to work on any more drafts and quit the film.

• When this film was re-released in 1945 by Film Classics, it was not deemed important enough to be reprinted in Technicolor. Prints were struck in the less expensive--and far inferior--Cinecolor process, and this was the only way it was to be seen for the next 40 years, until its Technicolor restoration in the 1980s.

• Boxer Maxie Rosenbloom, who also acted in this film, gave boxing lessons to Carole Lombard before her "bout" with Fredric March in this film.