A marvelous black comedy full of wit and journalistic wisdom in the grand and capricious style of Hecht (he and Charles MacArthur co-wrote THE FRONT PAGE), this film is all the more stunning thanks to the outrageous and hilarious performance of super comedienne Lombard. This was one of the first of the screwball comedies, a classic of the genre which is just as funny today as when it was first filmed.
Ambitious newsman Wally Cook (Fredric March), stuck at a sensation-seeking tabloid, gets into trouble when he tries to pass off a black New Yorker as the "Sultan of Marzipan," a potentate who is about to donate $500,000 to establish an art institute. The man is...
Released:
1937
Rated:
NR
Length:
75 mins