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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.
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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.
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- Howard Hawks
- 1940-01-18
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 (1940) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
His Girl Friday (1940) - Cast & Crew — The Movie Database (TMDB) ← Back to main. Cast 35. Cary Grant. Walter Burns. Rosalind Russell. Hildy Johnson. Ralph Bellamy. Bruce Baldwin. Gene Lockhart. Sheriff Hartwell. Helen Mack. Mollie Malloy. Porter Hall. Murphy. Ernest Truex. Bensinger. Cliff Edwards. Endicott. Clarence Kolb. Mayor. Roscoe Karns.
- IT’S BASED ON A PLAY. Director Howard Hawks adapted His Girl Friday from the hit Broadway play The Front Page. First produced in 1928, The Front Page—written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur—was an instant hit on Broadway, with The New York Times proclaiming it “loud, rapid, coarse, and unfailing entertainment” (though they also noted, with some distaste, that its characters “utter some of the baldest profanity and most slattern jesting that has ever been heard on the public stage”).
- HOWARD HUGHES PRODUCED THE FIRST FILM ADAPTATION. His Girl Friday may be the most famous film adaptation of The Front Page, but it was eccentric aviation magnate Howard Hughes who first brought it to the big screen, in 1931.
- HAWKS DECIDED TO MAKE HILDY A WOMAN AFTER A DINNER PARTY READING. In the original play, Hildy and Walter were both male reporters, but Hawks had a sudden stroke of inspiration while discussing the play at a dinner party.
- HAWKS WANTED TO MAKE A "FAST" FILM … Hawks didn’t just want His Girl Friday to be a fast-paced film, he wanted it to be the fastest film. “Everybody said that the original Front Page was the fastest picture that was ever made,” Hawks recalled in an interview.
When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson, has gotten engaged to milquetoast insurance agent Bruce Baldwin, he ...
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Bruce Baldwin. Gene Lockhart. Sheriff [Peter B.] Hartwell. Porter Hall. Murphy. Photos & Videos. View All. 3 Photos. Film Details. Genre. Comedy. Adaptation. Classic Hollywood. Drama. Romance. Release Date. Jan 18, 1940. Premiere Information. New York opening: week of 12 Jan 1940.
