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Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. An unscrupulous editor plots to keep his star reporter-and ex-wife-from re-marrying. Cast & Crew. Read More. Howard Hawks. Director. Cary Grant. Walter Burns. Rosalind Russell. Hildy Johnson. Ralph Bellamy. Bruce Baldwin. Gene Lockhart. Sheriff [Peter B.] Hartwell. Porter Hall
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. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (played by the peerless Cary Grant), who dangles the chance for her to ...
His Girl Friday. In this whip-smart screwball comedy from revered director Howard Hawks, Cary Grant plays a desperate newspaper editor trying to keep his ace-reporter (and ex-wife) from leaving the job to marry someone else. 1,271 IMDb 7.8 1 h 28 min 1940. X-Ray PG. Drama · Comedy · Passionate · Fun. Watch with a free Prime trial. Watch with Prime.
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. 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.
Mar 19, 2024 · 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.
Jan 9, 2017 · 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.
Director. Charles Lederer. Screenplay. Ben Hecht. Screenplay. Reviews 1. Discussions 3. Written by CinemaSerf on June 23, 2022. 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.
