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His girl Friday

Venice Classics
Director:
Howard Hawks
Production:
Columbia Pictures
Running Time:
92'
Language:
English
Country:
USA
Year:
1940
Main Cast:
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart
Screenplay:
Charles Lederer
Cinematographer:
Joseph Walker
Editor:
Gene Havlick
Costume Designer:
Robert Kalloch
Music:
Sidney Cutner, Felix Mills
Sound:
Lodge Cunningham
Restoration:
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Laboratories:Cineric, Motion Picture Imaging, Deluxe Audio Services
Note:From the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur

Synopsis

A classic screwball comedy in which Rosalind Russell plays reporter Hildy Johnson, who, on the eve of her remarriage, is talked into one more assignment by her editor and ex-husband, played by Cary Grant. While interviewing a condemned man, Hildy realizes that his hanging is planned as a vote-getting measure.

Director’s Statement

I was going to prove to somebody one night that The Front Page had the finest modern dialogue that had been written, and I asked a girl to read Hildy’s part and I read the editor and I stopped and I said, “Hell, it’s better between a girl and a man than between two men.” and I called Ben Hecht and I said “What would you think of changing it so that Hildy is a girl?” And he said, “I think it’s a great idea,” and he came out and we did it.

Production/Distribution

PRODUCTION: Grover Crisp - Sony Pictures Entertainment
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