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His Girl Friday (Columbia) (1940)
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Cary Grant,
Rosalind Russell,
Ralph Bellamy,
Gene Lockhart,
Helen Mack
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Howard Hawks
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Classic,
Comedy
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Columbia / TriStar
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English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
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Length: |
92 mins
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"As Fresh And Undated And Bright A Film As You Could Want." -The New Yorker
Considered by many to be the best of Howard Hawks' comedies (Bringing Up Baby, I Was A Male War Bride), His Girl Friday was adapted from Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's oft-filmed Broadway smash "The Front Page," with a screenplay by Charles Lederer.Hawks changed the sex of one of the amle leads, and revamped the spoof of newspapers and news hounds into a hilarious and sophisticated battle of the sexes and battle of the exes.When ace reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell, never better) announces she's leaving the | | |
