Preceded by Color Shorts: The Romance and Thrill of Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair (1932-33, 7 mins), and Katharine Hepburn Screen Test for Joan of Arc, a Pioneer Pictures Production (1934, 2 mins). (For the last thirty years, Nothing Sacred has been available only in Cinecolor or black-and-white reissues. This is a restored 3-color Technicolor print.) In one of the best of all the thirties satires, Carole Lombard plays a small-town girl who is thought to be dying of radium poisoning. She is given the New York-by-night tour courtesy of a large newspaper company seeking to capitalize on her last (radio)active days. William K. Everson writes, "When screwball comedies were becoming civilized, this one (from a beautiful script by Ben Hecht, based on a story by James Street) is not only magnificently vicious as it takes aim at the overall phoniness of New York City and the newspaper business in general, but it is a forerunner of a kind of 'black' comedy that did not become fashionable until Lubitsch's To Be or Not To Be.... Fast-paced, mixing sophistry with slapstick and an unending stream of dazzling one-liners, it is one of the few comedies of its period that really doesn't date.... Fredric March's performance as the reporter--phoney sincerity ultimately becoming the real thing--is one of his funniest and best, and the supporting cast is full of the magnificent character actors who have now vanished from Hollywood films.... (This) was one of the first 3-color Technicolor films to apply color to a modern, big-city story and it does it superbly well."