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His Girl Friday (1940)

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. (source: imdb.com)

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Cary Grant

Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell

Hildegaard 'Hildy' Johnson
Ralph Bellamy

Bruce Baldwin
Gene Lockhart

Sheriff Peter B.'Pinky' Hartwell
Porter Hall

Murphy - Reporter
Ernest Truex

Roy V. Bensinger - Reporter
Cliff Edwards

Endicott - Reporter
Clarence Kolb

Mayor
Roscoe Karns

McCue - Reporter
Frank Jenks

Wilson - Reporter
Regis Toomey

Sanders - Reporter
John Qualen

Earl Williams
Helen Mack

Mollie Malloy
Alma Kruger

Mrs. Baldwin
Billy Gilbert

Joe Pettibone
Edwin Maxwell

Dr. Max J. Eggelhoffer
Irving Bacon

Gus - Waiter
Wade Boteler

Mike - Jail Guard
Edmund Cobb

Policeman
Ann Doran

Newspaper Office Worker
Ralph Dunn

Plainclothesman
Earl Dwire

Pete Davis
Marion Martin

Evangeline - Louie's Blonde Associate

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Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell

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Snapshot

Release Date

11 January 1940

Tagline

She learned about men from him!

Genre

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country

USA

Filming Locations

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Language

Sound Mix

Color

Film Type

Film Class

Screwball Comedy, Media Satire, Romantic Comedy, Workplace Comedy

Mood

In the Mood for Love

Themes

Work Ethics, Battle of the Sexes, Members of the Press

Tones

Madcap, Satirical, Humorous, Talky, Biting, Quirky

Wikipedia

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of the play The Front Page by Hecht and MacArthur. The change in this version is that the role of Hildy Johnson was converted from male to female.

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