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His Girl Friday (1940)

7.9 Listal rating
8.1 IMDB rating

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Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy Johnson, to insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin, but not without a fight! The crafty editor uses every trick in his fedora to get Hildy to write one last big story, about murderer Earl Williams and the inept Sheriff Hartwell. The comedy snowball ... (more)


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Starring (View all) :
Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

Hildy Johnson
Ralph Bellamy

Ralph Bellamy

Bruce Baldwin
Gene Lockhart

Gene Lockhart

Sheriff Hartwell
Porter Hall

Porter Hall

Murphy
Ernest Truex

Ernest Truex

Bensinger
Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards

Endicott
Frank Jenks

Frank Jenks

Wilson


Written by (View all) :
Charles Lederer

Charles Lederer

(screenplay)


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Classic comedy!

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at May 21 4:25
"I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up!" His Girl Friday is a hysterically funny screwball comedy masterpiece by one of cinema's greatest directors, Howard Hawks. This film is purely one of the funniest classic comedies I've ever seen. Although roughly 70 years old the film is still a wickedly enchanting oddball comedy, and its original impact has only marginally dissipated. Based on a successful Broadway smash (that was filmed as a movie) by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, the film follows conniving newspaper editor Walter Burns (Grant) who works for the Morning Post. Former ace reporter Hildy Johnson (Russell) returns to the Morning Post to tell her ex-husband Walter that there's a new lover in her life, and to bid him farewell one last tim...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Witty cad and conniving lady in love

Posted : 2 years ago at Oct 20 6:48
Rosalind Russell not Cary Grant, is really the central character in this movie. While the witty banter goes around and around bringing laughs all around, the real story is about journalists that are supposed to get to the truth, but only manipulate everyone around them to suit their own needs. A very humorous condemnation of politicians, journalists, and law enforcement.

Rating : 9/10

I Should Like This Movie

Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago at Jun 28 17:33
I know I'm supposed to like this movie. It's got a great director, fabulous actors and witty dialog. And yet I hate the plot. Cary Grant spends the whole movie lying and plotting and just being pretty despicable. I guess I like him more when he charms a woman into falling for him (which he does pretty easily) rather than being a loathsome cad. I much prefer Philadelphia Story or Holiday to this movie.

Rating : 5/10