His Girl Friday (1940)
Average Rating: 8.7/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 1
Anchored by stellar performances from Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday is a classic screwball romantic comedy.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0
Anchored by stellar performances from Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday is a classic screwball romantic comedy.
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The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism for marriage to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Cary Grant plays Walter Burns, Hildy's editor and ex-husband, who feigns happiness about her impending marriage as a ploy to win her back. The
Jan 18, 1940 Wide
Dec 28, 2004
Columbia Pictures
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Cast
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Cary Grant
Walter Burns -
Rosalind Russell
Hildy Johnson -
Ralph Bellamy
Bruce Baldwin -
Gene Lockhart
Sheriff Hartwell -
Helen Mack
Mollie Malloy -
Porter Hall
Murphy -
John Qualen
Earl Williams -
Ernest Truex
Roy Bensinger -
Clarence Kolb
Mayor -
Cliff Edwards
Endicott -
Roscoe Karns
McCue -
Frank Jenks
Wilson -
Regis Toomey
Sanders -
Abner Biberman
Diamond Louie -
Frank Orth
Duffy -
Alma Kruger
Mrs. Baldwin -
Billy Gilbert
Joe Pettibone -
Pat West
Warden Cooley -
Edwin Maxwell
Dr. Egelhoffer -
Irving Bacon
Gus -
Wade Boteler
Jail Guard -
Edmund Cobb
Cop -
Ralph Dunn
Guard -
Earl Dwire
Mr. Davis -
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All Critics (39) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (1) | DVD (20)
One is tempted to throw away any semblance of persuasion and simply demand that you go see this movie.
Top CriticThe movie bears reviewing because there's always something new in the confetti of one-liners, while its depiction of the Fourth Estate remains relevant.
Cary Grant's performance is truly virtuoso -- stunning technique applied to the most challenging material.
Casting is excellent, with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in the top roles.
Perhaps the funniest, certainly the fastest talkie comedy ever made.
It takes you by the scruff of the neck in the first reel and it shakes you madly, bellowing hoarsely the. while, for the remaining six or seven. Before it's over you don't know whether you have been laughing or having your ears boxed.
Sassy, screwball classic with a feminist twist.
Have the movies ever talked this quickly, before or since?
The ultimate lesson of His Girl Friday--that it's tougher to manage a marriage than a newspaper--looks in 2008 like pure nostalgia.
A delirious joy.
It's exactly the type of craziness that good newspapers thrive on. Stop the presses.
One of the best screwball comedies, a remake that improves on the source material due to Hawks brilliant idea of changing the protag's gender thus turning it into a romantic "newspaper" film; Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy at their best
O ritmo frenético com que os excelentes diálogos são trocados (algo inovador para a época) e o timing cômico impecável de Grant e Russell garantem a permanência deste filme na lista de clássicos inquestionáveis.
A double espresso is needed to keep up with the rapid-fire exchanges of Hawks' no-holds-barred muckraking comedy.
I've tried to love His Girl Friday, really I have.
It's the energy of "His Girl Friday" that grabs you, its heated lines of dialogue that leave you satisfied and spent.
Cary Grant as the ruthless fast-talking sharpie newspaper editor gives one of his finest performances.
brilliant
Fast, funny, cynical and -- in its own peculiar way -- romantic, His Girl Friday is one of the all-time great movies.
Howard Hawks' superb screwball workplace comedy is one of those classics that manages to convince new viewers of its greatness despite any inflated expectations caused by its sky-high reputation.
Audience Reviews for His Girl Friday
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- Walter Burns: There's been a light burning in the window for you!
- Hildy Johnson: I jumped out that window a long time ago, Walter.
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- Walter Burns: Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page.
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Foreign Titles
- Sein Mädchen für besondere Fälle (DE)
- His Girl Friday (1940) (CA)
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