His Girl Friday - 1940
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His Girl Friday

Updated: 18 Jul 2022
Directors:
Howard Hawks Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur Charles Lederer Howard Hawks Sidney Cutner Felix Mills Joseph Walker Gene Havlick Ben Hecht Morrie Ryskind Lionel Banks Robert Kalloch Cliff P. Broughton Lodge Cunningham Cliff Shirpser Morris Stoloff Ben Oakland Jed Harris
Actors:
Cary Grant Rosalind Russell Ralph Bellamy Gene Lockhart Helen Mack Porter Hall Ernest Truex Cliff Edwards Clarence Kolb Roscoe Karns Frank Jenks Regis Toomey Abner Biberman Frank Orth John Qualen Alma Kruger Billy Gilbert Pat West Edwin Maxwell Irving Bacon Wade Boteler Harry C. Bradley Wheaton Chambers Edmund Cobb Ann Doran Ralph Dunn Earl Dwire Pat Flaherty Jack Gardner Eddie Hart Marion Martin Frank McLure James Millican Gene Morgan Delmar Watson
Genre:
Romance, Drama, Comedy
Country: no data
Year: 1940
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.
Writer, Screenwriter
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over 4 years ago
I’d go for His Girl Friday. There’s just that Howard Hawks rapid dialogue, the glory of Cary Grant [at his] most Cary Grant-ish. It’s funny. It moves, it actually has huge social responsibility, and they did a thing where they gender-swapped the lead.
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Actress
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over 4 years ago
His Girl Friday is funny because it’s… In that way that I think In Bruges and JCVD are just perfect, it is perfect. It is beyond perfect. It is transcendently flawless for like the first 45 minutes, and then it kind of goes off into crazy town. But you still stay with it, and the tone completely changes and it gets really weird and dark, but I guess that’s what happens in some of those movies. But it’s the perfect distillation of that kind of fast-talking, thin-line-between-love-and-hate style relationship. It would definitely be the kind of movie that, if somebody was trying to get into movies from the ’30s and ’40s and wanted that kind of patter and that kind of style, I would definitely point them in that direction. The Women is my favorite film, but it’s kind of a lot to take in, and I would understand if it scared people off a little bit. Whereas if you watch the first 20 minutes of His Girl Friday, you’re in. It’s like a starter course for that kind of film.
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Actress, Director, Writer
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4 months ago
I think Cary Grant could make anything work, for sure. His Girl Friday is one of the best fast-talking movies of all time.
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