@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt1npn5p.7, ISBN = {9780300088151}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1npn5p.7}, abstract = {InNothing Sacred(1937), Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard), a supposedly doomed creature from the verbal backwaters of Vermont, visits New York as the guest of a tabloid newspaper determined to wring the last lachrymose drop out of her sob-sister story. She is treated to a night at the Casino Moderne, whose marquee advertises—and welcomes!—‘‘Tootsies of all Nations.’’ There she witnesses a revue celebrating the ‘‘Heroines of History’’: Catherine the Great, applauded for saving Russia (‘‘And she could do it, too,’’ the emcee assures us); Lady Godiva (‘‘She saved her virtue; that’s the way those things go, folks’’); Lypsinka,}, author = {Maria DiBattista}, booktitle = {Fast-Talking Dames}, pages = {84--131}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, title = {Blonde Bombshells: Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, and Ginger Rogers}, year = {2001} }