A terminal diagnosis of radium poisoning prompts Hazel Flagg, a woman from Warsaw, Vermont, to reevaluate her life. She's relieved not to be dying, but disappointed her plans to travel in style to New York have been foiled. Her fortunes change when Wally Cook, a New York reporter, arrives, seeking to tell her inspiring story of mortality. He offers to take her to New York, where she becomes an overnight sensation. As they spend more time together, Hazel and Wally fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by her now-public "imminent" death.
Nothing Sacred
A woman with a history of misdiagnosed radium poisoning manipulates a reporter into thinking she's still ill, exploiting her supposed condition for personal gain.