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
Some of the comments here claim that, when John Qualen sticks his his head out of the rolltop desk he's hiding in and Cary Grant yells, "Get back in there, you mock turtle," the line is an in-joke referring to Paramount's 1933 film version of "Alice... ...
Quotes
Walter Burns:
We've been in worse jams than this, haven't we, Hildy?
Hildy Johnson:
Nope.
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Hildy's hand is on/off her chin between shots at lunch.
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Opening credits are shown over a newspaper background.
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Genres
Comedy | Drama | RomanceDetails
Release Date:
18 January 1940Language
English, French
Country of Origin
USABox Office
Gross:
$296,000 (USA) (31 January 1940)
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