His Girl Friday (1940)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
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Walter Burns -
Hildy Johnson -
Bruce Baldwin -
Sheriff Hartwell -
Murphy -
Bensinger -
Endicott -
Mayor -
McCue -
Wilson -
Sanders -
Louie -
Duffy -
Earl Williams -
Mollie Malloy
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Director:
Howard HawksWriters:
Charles Lederer (screen play), Ben Hecht (from the play "The Front Page"), Charles MacArthur (from the play "The Front Page")All Cast & Crew
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Trivia
One of the first films (preceded by "Stage Door" (1937)) to have characters talk over the lines of other characters, for a more realistic sound. Prior to this, movie characters completed their lines before the next lines were started.
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Hildy Johnson:
Of course he had to have a gun to re-enact the crime with. And who do you think supplied it? Peter B. Hartwell. B For brains.
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When Walter & Hildy are handcuffed together & the Mayor walks in, Hildy's right arm is by her side in the long shot but in the closeup her hands are together.
Crazy Credits
Opening credits prologue: It all happened in the "Dark Ages" of the newspaper game--when to a reporter "Getting that story" justified anything short of murder.
Incidentally you will see in this picture no resemblance to the man and woman of the press today.
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Genres
Comedy | Drama | RomanceDetails
Release Date:
18 January 1940Language
English, French
Country of Origin
USAFilming Locations
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USABox Office
Gross:
$296,000 (USA) (31 January 1940)
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