His Girl Friday (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)


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Cast & Crew.

Cary Grant
Walter Burns

Rosalind Russell
Hildy Johnson

Ralph Bellamy
Bruce Baldwin

Gene Lockhart
Sheriff Hartwell

Helen Mack
Mollie Malloy

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

Alma Kruger
Mrs. Baldwin

Billy Gilbert
Joe Pettibone

Pat West
Warden Cooley

Edwin Maxwell
Dr. Egelhoffer

Irving Bacon
Gus (uncredited)

Wade Boteler
Mike (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley
Insurance Doctor (uncredited)

Wheaton Chambers
Elevator Passenger (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb
Cop (uncredited)

Ann Doran
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

Ralph Dunn
Plainclothesman (uncredited)

Earl Dwire
Pete Davis (uncredited)

Pat Flaherty
Frank the Policeman (uncredited)

Jack Gardner
Elevator Passenger (uncredited)

Eddie Hart
Carl the Plainclothesman (uncredited)

Marion Martin
Evangeline (uncredited)

Frank McLure
Newsman (uncredited)

James Millican
Tim (uncredited)

Gene Morgan
Gene (uncredited)

Delmar Watson
Skinny (uncredited)

Howard Hawks
Director / Producer

Ben Hecht
Theatre Play / Screenplay

Charles MacArthur
Theatre Play

Charles Lederer
Screenplay

Sidney Cutner
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Release DateJanuary 18, 1940
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 32m
Content RatingNR
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His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of murderer Earl Williams as Burns desperately tries to win back his wife. The screenplay was adapted from the 1928 play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. This was the second time the play had been adapted for the screen, the first occasion being the 1931 film which kept the original title The Front Page.
The script for His Girl Friday was written by Charles Lederer with the most major alteration to the source material being the changing of Hildy Johnson's gender, an idea introduced by Hawks. Filming began in September 1939 and finished in November, seven days behind schedule. Production was delayed because the frequent improvisation and numerous ensemble scenes required many retakes. Hawks encouraged his actors to be aggressive and spontaneous. His Girl Friday has been noted for its surprises, comedy, and rapid, overlapping dialogue. Hawks was determined to break the record for the fastest film dialogue, at the time held by The Front Page. He used a sound mixer on the set to increase the speed of dialogue and held a showing of the two films next to each other to prove how fast his film was.
His Girl Friday was #19 on American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs and was selected in 1993 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film is in the public domain because the copyright was not renewed; the play it was based on remained under copyright for several decades until it expired in 2024, fully releasing the film from remaining copyright.
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