His Girl Friday

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Call Number: DVD Comedy His
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Title from sell sheet.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Full screen (1.33:1).
Special features: New 2K restoration of Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931); New interview with film scholar David Bordwell; archival interviews with Howard Hawks; featurettes from 1999; radio adaptation from 1940; new piece about the restoration of The Front Page; new piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht; radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946; trailers; booklet.
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell.
Hildy Johnson is a reporter. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife.
DVD, full screen (1.33:1); mono.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

What fun. submitted by lisa on July 25, 2019, 1:44pm Famously a remake with a woman cast in what had been a man's part.

Great Screwball Comedy submitted by Meginator on June 25, 2023, 12:39pm This fast-talking screwball comedy may take place in a world that has essentially disappeared (that of the pre-internet newsroom), but its nonstop patter and outstanding performances give it a timeless quality that makes it laugh-out-loud hilarious even today. The setup is standard enough, as an editor receives a final visit from his soon-to-be-remarried ex-wife, but the film quickly descends into madness and even farce as a breaking story develops and eventually breaks its way into the newspaper’s offices and the nearby judicial building. The plot elements are unlikely (to say the least), but just plausible enough to avoid taking viewers out of the story, even when the film breaks the fourth wall; somehow, it simply makes sense that these characters could experience these events and would react with such dramatic flair. Much of the film’s success hinges on the chemistry between the incomparable Cary Grant and Rosaline Russell, who continuously blur the line between genuine affection and genuine distaste for each other in a way that subtly delivers backstory without taking anything away from the film’s current action. As a romantic comedy about getting the girl back with surprising respect for its female lead, the film has a strikingly modern sensibility to it despite all of the elements that firmly root it in the 1930s, and it deserves its place as a classic of the comedy canon.