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His Girl Friday
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His Girl Friday

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The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism for marriage to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Cary Grant plays Walter Burns, Hildy's editor and ex-husband, who feigns happiness about her impending marriage as a ploy to win her back. The ace up Walter's sleeve is a late-breaking news story concerning the impending execution of anarchist Earl Williams (John Qualen), a blatant example of political chicanery that Hildy can't pass up. The story gets hotter when Williams escapes and is hidden from the cops by Hildy and Walter--right in the prison pressroom. His Girl Friday may well be the fastest comedy of the 1930s, with kaleidoscope action, instantaneous plot twists, and overlapping dialogue. And if you listen closely, you'll hear a couple of 'in' jokes, one concerning Cary Grant's real name (Archie Leach), and another poking fun at Ralph Bellamy's patented 'poor sap' screen image. Subsequent versions of The Front Page included Billy Wilder's 1974 adaptation, which restored Hildy Johnson's manhood in the form of Jack Lemmon, and 1988's Switching Channels, which cast Burt Reynolds in the Walter Burns role and Kathleen Turner as the Hildy Johnson counterpart.
Actors: Cary Grant,
Cary Grant
Cary Grant 18 January 1904, Horfield, Bristol, England, UK
Rosalind Russell,
Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell 4 June 1907, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Ralph Bellamy,
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy 17 June 1904, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gene Lockhart,
Gene Lockhart
Gene Lockhart 18 July 1891, London, Ontario, Canada
Porter Hall,
Porter Hall
Porter Hall 19 September 1888, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Ernest Truex,
Ernest Truex
Ernest Truex 19 September 1889, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Cliff Edwards
Cliff Edwards
Cliff Edwards 14 June 1895, Hannibal, Missouri, USA
Genre: DramaComedyRomance
Director: Howard Hawks
Country: United States
Release: 1940
IMDb: 7.8
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Duration: 92 min
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