“His Girl Friday” is a screwball comedy about a newspaper editor who is about to loose his ace reporter, who also happens to be his ex-wife, so he puts her on a top story in hopes of keeping her, both as a wife and as an employee. Director Howard Hawks (“Only Angels Have Wings” 1939) kept this film running on all cylinders with great production values, from a quality screenplay written by Charles Lederer, adapted from the 1929 play “The Front Play” by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
The stars of the show, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel, have fantastic chemistry with their great talents at delivering clever repartee and rapid fire dialogue, from the marvelous Lederer script. Some of the dialogue, especially by Grant, was improvised. Co-stars include Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Regis Toomey, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Frank Jenks, Clarence Kolb, Alma Kruger, and Roscoe Karns. The fun and watchable motion picture “His Girl Friday” was successful at the box office for producer Howard Hawks and Columbia Pictures.
His Girl Friday (1940)
cinema
My Review
“His Girl Friday” is a screwball comedy about a newspaper editor who is about to loose his ace reporter, who also happens to be his ex-wife, so he puts her on a top story in hopes of keeping her, both as a wife and as an employee. Director Howard Hawks (“Only Angels Have Wings” 1939) kept this film running on all cylinders with great production values, from a quality screenplay written by Charles Lederer, adapted from the 1929 play “The Front Play” by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
The stars of the show, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel, have fantastic chemistry with their great talents at delivering clever repartee and rapid fire dialogue, from the marvelous Lederer script. Some of the dialogue, especially by Grant, was improvised. Co-stars include Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Regis Toomey, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Frank Jenks, Clarence Kolb, Alma Kruger, and Roscoe Karns. The fun and watchable motion picture “His Girl Friday” was successful at the box office for producer Howard Hawks and Columbia Pictures.