Search results
His Girl Friday, American screwball comedy film, released in 1940, that was director Howard Hawks’s innovative remake of The Front Page (1931). The lightning-fast repartee and prickly courtship of the film’s two leads made it a classic in the genre. Cary Grant played a self-centred newsman
His Girl Friday may well be the fastest comedy of the 1930s, with kaleidoscope action, instantaneous plot twists, and overlapping dialogue. And if you listen closely, you'll hear a couple of "in" jokes, one concerning Cary Grant's real name (Archie Leach), and another poking fun at Ralph Bellamy's patented "poor sap" screen image.
5 de ene. de 2013 · Luna nueva (His Girl Friday): Una joya cómica. En Luna nueva, una veterana periodista de raza va a abandonar la profesión para casarse pero antes cubrirá la ejecución de un recluso que le ha encargado su editor.. Llevada al cine varias veces, la obra teatral The Front Page escrita por Ben Hecht y Charles MacArthur tuvo en la versión de Lederer la más brillante de las tres que se hicieron ...
9 de ene. de 2017 · His Girl Friday positively revels in their absence. From her ex, Hildy gets none of the little courtesies that in 1940 were supposed to make women feel respected. Walter pulls out his cigarettes without a word to Hildy; she asks for one and he tosses it to her, and the matches soon follow—no Now, Voyager rituals here.
6 de ene. de 2017 · Picture 8/10. Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday receives a new Blu-ray edition from the Criterion Collection, presenting it in the aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on the first dual-layer disc of this two-disc set. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a high-definition scan of a 35mm fine-grain master, which was sourced from a 35mm original nitrate negative and other duplicate sources ...
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.
His Girl Friday. Available on Pluto TV, MGM+, Philo, Prime Video, Tubi TV, Sling TV, Plex, Classix. A classic screwball comedy in which Russell plays reporter Hildy Johnson, who, on the eve of her remarriage, is talked into one more assignment by her editor and ex-husband, Grant. While interviewing a condemned man, Hildy realizes that his ...
