Paramount Pictures, which owned the rights to the source material for Nothing Sacred, also acquired the rights to produce a film version of Hazel Flagg. The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis film Living It Up (1954) is based on the musical,[2] with Hazel Flagg rewritten as a man, Homer Flagg (played by Lewis) and Wallace Cook rewritten as a woman, Wally Cook (played by Janet Leigh). The one hit song from Hazel Flagg, "Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York", was performed in this movie by Martin and Lewis.[5]
Wallace Cook, a writer for Everywhere magazine, suggests that his editor should run an article about small-town girl Hazel Flagg, purportedly dying from exposure to radium. Cook invites her to New York City for an interview. After accepting, she discovers that she was misdiagnosed, but eager to visit the big city, decides not to reveal the truth, and becomes a media darling embraced by a public deeply moved by her sad story.
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Mordden, Ethan (2001). Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s (softcover) (1st ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-514058-3.
^Robinson, Mark A. (2014). The World of Musicals: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and Song (hardcover) (1st ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. p. 308. ISBN978-1-4408-0097-9.
^ abcdeDietz, Dan (2014). The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals (hardcover) (1st ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN978-1-4422-3504-5.
