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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.
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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When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), h...
His Girl Friday (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Get Poetic Editor and ex-husband Walter (Cary Grant) is angling to get ex-wife and star reporter Hildy (Rosalind Russell) to put off her honeymoon with Bruce (Ralph Bellamy) and come back to cover the hot murder trial, early in Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday, 1940.
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.
Having been away for four months, Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) walks into the offices of the New York City-based The Morning Post, where she is a star reporter, to tell her boss, editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant), that she is quitting.
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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.
His Girl Friday plays out against an especially grim plot mechanism: the question of whether a man will be hanged the next morning for shooting a police officer. Walter suspects that the convicted man, Earl Williams (John Qualen), was temporarily insane and should be reprieved, or, at any rate, he thinks that angle would make a great story.
