(1940, Dir. Howard Hawks)
In Short: Newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) tries to win back his ex-wife and former star reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) by getting her to cover one last story before she gets married to a boring insurance man the next day. His Girl Friday is based on a play called The Front Page that had been adapted for the screen in 1931, following the same screwball plot of an escaped convicted murderer hiding in a newspaper office, but in The Front Page, all the reporters are men! His Girl Friday has the fantastic (and necessary) extra layer of Hildy Johnson being the only woman in the office--but also the best reporter out of everyone. It's such a fun, interesting twist. This is a tremendously funny movie! Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell have fantastic comedic chemistry that plays into the whirlwind, screwball plot really, really well. Their characters are independently strong and funny, but their combined talents for comedy are unbeatable.
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Perhaps I didn't notice, but I feel like your reviews are getting shorter instead of longer. I'm not saying to pad out your reviews, but some of the meat is getting lost. Give me some substance. There are so many elements to film that it is a shame that it only really gets a blurb.
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