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The Girl on the Front Page is a 1936 American comedy crime film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart and Reginald Owen. It was produced and distributed by Hollywood major Universal Pictures.
A society woman becomes the target of blackmail after she inherits control of a big-city newspaper.
- Drama
- Edmund Lowe
- Harry Beaumont
Joan Langford takes over her father's newspaper after he dies, much to the disgust of the chief editor, "Hank" Gilman. Langford had stipulated that if Joan decided to sell the paper, she could only sell it to Hank and the reporters.
- Harry Beaumont, Phil Karlstein
- Edmund Lowe
The Girl on the Front Page: Directed by Harry Beaumont. With Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart, Reginald Owen, Spring Byington. The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Harry Beaumont
- 1936-09-27
Roger Ebert and Billy Wilder in 1974. hungry police reporters, and corrupt politicians, and an escaped murderer who spends half the film concealed in a rolltop desk in the press room.
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Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein. Gloria Stuart's trouble only begins when she inherits a newspaper in this routine, but at times, quite hilarious comedy from Universal. Overhearing a chauvinistic remark from senior editor Hank Gilman (Edmund Lowe), Joan Langford decides to begin her newspaper business career from the bottom and incognito.
