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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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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. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged ...
- Howard Hawks
- Columbia Pictures
Anchored by stellar performances from Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday is possibly the definitive screwball romantic comedy. When hard-charging New York newspaper editor...
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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
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- Cary Grant
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 ...
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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.
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.
