Adolphe Menjou
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Written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, The Front Page is a play that is considered responsible for defining the modern stereotype of a reporter as a hard-drinking, hard-boiled journalist intent on uncovering truth even in the face of danger.
Watch The Front Page with a subscription on Prime Video. Successful Chicago newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon) is hanging up his journalist's hat to marry Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon).
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The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code screwball black comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien.
The Front Page. Ruthless newspaper editor Walter Burns and his crack ace reporter Hildy believe together they can cover any story. The only problem is that Hildy has decided to get married and leave the newspaper business altogether.
The Front Page (1974) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The corrupt Mayor of The Front Page is a winking homage to Big Bill Thompson, who presided over Chicago during much of the 1910s and '20s, governing the city according to his own system of campaign contributions and political favors.
hungry police reporters, and corrupt politicians, and an escaped murderer who spends half the film concealed in a rolltop desk in the press room.
