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Cary Grant was almost immediately cast in the film, but Cohn initially intended Grant to play the reporter, with radio commentator Walter Winchell as the editor. Hawks' production that became His Girl Friday was originally intended to be a straightforward adaptation of The Front Page , with both the editor and reporter being male.
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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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Howard Hawks
- 1940-01-18
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.Based on the 1928 Broadway play of the same name by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer, and distributed by United Artists.
The Front Page: Directed by Lewis Milestone. With Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton. A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Lewis Milestone
- 1931-04-04
Apr 4, 2015 · Chicago's ace reporter Hildy Johnson wants to quit newspaper work and get married, but his editor, Walter Burns, is determined to keep him on the job. Hildy refuses to talk to Walter, knowing his persuasive powers, so Walter sets off a fire alarm outside the apartment of Hildy's fiancée, Peggy Grant. Unable to resist, Hildy runs to the street ...
- Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt
- Adolph Menjou
The Front Page is a 1974 American black comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 play of the same name (which inspired several other films, such as 1931's The Front Page, the 1940 comedy, His Girl Friday, and televised movies and series episodes).
His Girl Friday (1940) -- (Movie Clip) That Fella In The Movies, Ralph Bellamy Reporter Hildy (Rosalind Russell) tells ex-husband and almost-ex boss editor Walter (Cary Grant) of another scoop, he sends vamp Vangie (Marion Martin) and hood Louie (Abner Biberman) to scam her waiting fiancè Bruce (Ralph Bellamy), Howard Hawks directing the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur dialogue sprint, in His ...
