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18 January 1940 (USA)
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She learned about men from him! more
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A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. full summary | full synopsis
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1 win
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(16 articles)
Blu-Ray Review: ‘The Ugly Truth’ Is Neither Funny Nor Romantic
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 23 November 2009, 2:02 PM, PST)
Farber on Film: Introduction, Part 4 (After Negative Space)
(From The Auteurs. 18 November 2009, 7:36 AM, PST)
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 23 November 2009, 2:02 PM, PST)
Farber on Film: Introduction, Part 4 (After Negative Space)
(From The Auteurs. 18 November 2009, 7:36 AM, PST)
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The Front Page remade
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Cary Grant | ... | Walter Burns | |
| Rosalind Russell | ... | Hildy Johnson | |
| Ralph Bellamy | ... | Bruce Baldwin | |
| Gene Lockhart | ... | Sheriff Hartwell | |
| Porter Hall | ... | Murphy | |
| Ernest Truex | ... | Bensinger | |
| Cliff Edwards | ... | Endicott | |
| Clarence Kolb | ... | Mayor | |
| Roscoe Karns | ... | McCue | |
| Frank Jenks | ... | Wilson | |
| Regis Toomey | ... | Sanders | |
| Abner Biberman | ... | Louie | |
| Frank Orth | ... | Duffy | |
| John Qualen | ... | Earl Williams | |
| Helen Mack | ... | Mollie Malloy |
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Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (USA) (complete title)
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92 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Australia:G (TV rating) |
Argentina:Atp |
USA:Approved (PCA #5823) |
USA:TV-G (TV rating) |
Finland:K-3 (video rating: 1993) |
France:U |
Portugal:M/6 |
South Korea:15 |
UK:U (1996) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:12 (DVD rating) |
Spain:T |
Sweden:15 |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:U (video rating) (1994) |
West Germany:o.Al. (original rating)
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One of the first, if not the first, films 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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Continuity: Hildy's hand is on/off her chin between shots at lunch.
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This gloriously funny romp by Howard Hawks is rightly remembered as one of the fastest-talking movies ever made. Originally done as 'The Front Page', the play by Hecht and McArthur takes on new life here as the character of Hildy Johnson metamorphoses in this version to be a sparky woman (played by Rosalind Russell), former wife of the harassed columnist Walter Burns (played with characteristic bewilderment and charm by Cary Grant). Hildy is about to marry again, to the nice but dull Bruce Baldwin (played by Ralph Bellamy as a character so boring he 'is like Ralph Bellamy' - how Hollywood liked its in-jokes).
With that fire-cracking script, a sizable amount of sparks between Grant and Russell, and good support from Bellamy and a cast which includes Gene Lockhart, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, and Regis Toomey, 'His Girl Friday' is one of those classic gems which never age and which remain hugely entertaining.