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Film · 1940 · Comedy drama
His Girl Friday
Directed by Howard Hawks
1940
★ 7.0 editorial score
Hawks made the reporter a woman and the ex-husband her editor, then had them talk over each other so fast the film runs at over two hundred words a minute.
“The movie that launched the careers of a thousand journalists, convinced that newspapers meant flirtation, dazzling, rapid-fire wit and lots of smoking, not to mention editors resembling Cary Grant. This was the second screen version of Hecht and MacArthur's popular stage play, "The Front Page", brilliantly directed by Howard Hawks, who, in a moment of inspiration, decided the Hildy Johnson character would work better as a woman.”
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1940Depicts 1940s
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