His Girl Friday
They're at each other's throats when they're not in each other's arms!
1940 | 92m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Howard Hawks |
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| Writer: | Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jan 18, 1940 |
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| Director: | Howard Hawks |
| Writer: | Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | suicide, prison, journalist, journalism, based on play or musical, fugitive, wager, black and white, screwball comedy, corrupt politician, newspaper editor, insurance agent, fiancé fiancée relationship, press room, political corruption, rolltop desk, reprieve, bride-to-be, ex spouses, imminent execution, convicted murderer, comedy of remarriage |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
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| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Cary Grant | Walter Burns |
| Rosalind Russell | Hildy Johnson |
| Ralph Bellamy | Bruce Baldwin |
| Gene Lockhart | Sheriff Hartwell |
| Helen Mack | Mollie Malloy |
| Porter Hall | Murphy |
| Ernest Truex | Bensinger |
| Cliff Edwards | Endicott |
| Clarence Kolb | Mayor |
| Roscoe Karns | McCue |
| Frank Jenks | Wilson |
| Regis Toomey | Sanders |
| Abner Biberman | Louie |
| Frank Orth | Duffy |
| John Qualen | Earl Williams |
| Alma Kruger | Mrs. Baldwin |
| Billy Gilbert | Joe Pettibone |
| Pat West | Warden Cooley |
| Edwin Maxwell | Dr. Egelhoffer |
| Irving Bacon | Gus (uncredited) |
| Wade Boteler | Mike (uncredited) |
| Harry C. Bradley | Insurance Doctor (uncredited) |
| Wheaton Chambers | Elevator Passenger (uncredited) |
| Edmund Cobb | Cop (uncredited) |
| Ann Doran | Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited) |
| Ralph Dunn | Plainclothesman (uncredited) |
| Earl Dwire | Pete Davis (uncredited) |
| Pat Flaherty | Frank the Policeman (uncredited) |
| Jack Gardner | Elevator Passenger (uncredited) |
| Eddie Hart | Carl the Plainclothesman (uncredited) |
| Marion Martin | Evangeline (uncredited) |
| Frank McLure | Newsman (uncredited) |
| James Millican | Tim (uncredited) |
| Gene Morgan | Gene (uncredited) |
| Delmar Watson | Skinny (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Charles Lederer | Screenplay |
| Howard Hawks | Director |
| Ben Hecht | Theatre Play, Screenplay |
| Sidney Cutner | Music |
| Morris Stoloff | Music Director |
| Charles MacArthur | Theatre Play |
| Joseph Walker | Director of Photography |
| Lionel Banks | Art Direction |
| Cliff P. Broughton | Assistant Director |
| Ben Oakland | Music |
| Robert Kalloch | Costume Design |
| Felix Mills | Music |
| Gene Havlick | Editor |
| Cliff Shirpser | Camera Intern |
| Lodge Cunningham | Sound |
| Paul Helmick | Assistant Director |
| Morrie Ryskind | Additional Dialogue |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Howard Hawks | Producer |
| Jed Harris | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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This is a belter of a film! Essentially just a two hander with Cary Grant ("Walter Burns") as the editor of a newspaper facing the loss of his ex-wife, and best reporter Rosalind Russell ("Hildy Johnson") who has decided to marry Ralph Bellamy ("Bruce Baldwin") and start a new life. Anyone who enjoy ... s the modern day writing of folks like Aaron Sorkin will immediately appreciate the depth and class of the clever, witty writing and the superbly fast paced delivery from both as Grant tries all sorts of manoeuvres to change her mind; frame her new fiancée and stop a man from going to the electric chair with the aide of little else but a few telephones and the odd interjection from some great supporters - Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, John Qualen and Abner Biberman as his go-to fixer "Louie". Russell is no shrinking violet, either - she has plenty of great one-liners and retorts of her own, and the equality with which they scrap makes this all the more fun. The ending is a touch too inevitable, and maybe just a little too muddled and that robs it of a killer punch; but this is still a cracking romantic comedy.