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His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures.
His Girl Friday: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart. A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
His Girl Friday was the second film adaptation of a 1920s comedy called The Front Page. The first film version supposedly had the record for the fastest dialogue delivery on screen, and Hawks...
When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), has gotten engaged to milquetoast ...
One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women.
His Girl Friday was the first screwball comedy to depart from the money-marriage-ego conflicts of Holiday [1938], My Man Godfrey [1936], and The Philadelphia Story [1940], inserting into the same comic structure and pattern of action a conflict between career and marriage."
His Girl Friday, American screwball comedy film, released in 1940, that was director Howard Hawks’s innovative remake of The Front Page (1931). The lightning-fast repartee and prickly courtship of the film’s two leads made it a classic in the genre. Cary Grant played a self-centred newsman.
