November 25, 1937 –
William A. Wellman’s wonderful screwball comedy, Nothing Sacred, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March, opened in NYC on this date.
The snooty society matron who berates Hazel and Wally for “besmirching the memory of that gallant girl Hazel Flagg” is played by a well-known character actress whose acting career was on the skids when she accepted this role. The following year, she would take up the assignment for which she became famous – “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood” debuted in the Los Angeles Times in 1938 and eventually would be syndicated in hundreds of newspapers across America, making Hopper the rival (and equal) of William Randolph Hearst’s popular gossip maven Louella Parsons
The Haus of Dcaligari 