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His Girl Friday Sponsored by The Glass House 1940 | Not Rated | Comedy, Romance | d. Howard Hawks Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart |
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| The second filming of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s play “The Front Page” is a fast and furious gender-bender turning original male reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) into a cunning, bawdy, aggressive female journalist. Howard Hawks has produced and directed a brilliantly acted screwball comedy—with a little social drama thrown in. Cary Grant is marvelous as Hildy’s former husband and ruthless newspaper editor Walter Burns. In a later interview, Hawks told filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich: "I had noticed that when people talk, they talk over one another, especially people who talk fast or who are arguing or describing something. So we wrote the dialogue in a way that made the beginnings and ends of sentences unnecessary; they were there for overlapping." Featuring: Ralph Bellamy,Helen Mack, John Qualen and Cliff Edwards as reporter Endicott, who immortalized the voice of “Jiminy Cricket” the same year in Disney’s Pinnochio. - Jay Duncan | ||