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Synopsis
His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of murderer Earl Williams as Burns desperately tries to win back his wife. The screenplay was adapted from the 1928 play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. This was the second time the play had been adapted for the screen, the first occasion being the 1931 film which kept the original title The Front Page.
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Poster by "Copyrighted by Columbia Pictures Corp , New York, N. Y. 1939" (Public domain).
Credits
- Producer
- Howard Hawks
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Screenplay
- Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, Charles MacArthur
- Director of Photography
- Joseph Walker
- Original Music Composer
- Sidney Cutner, Felix Mills
- Editor
- Gene Havlick
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