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His Girl Friday(Movie, 1940)

1h 32min | Genres: Comedy, Romance / Love
His Girl FridayRating: 3.7/5 (with 354354 votes)
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 and Ben Hecht, the lat... ()
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About His Girl Friday

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

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HIS GIRL FRIDAY Trailer [1940](Trailer, 2:50)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Based on the work of: Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht ("The Front Page")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR)
Translated into 22 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/18/1940
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Ayuno de amor"
"La dame du vendredi"
"Момиче за всичко"
"小报妙冤家"
"星期五女郎"
"Sensationen"
"Luna nueva"
"Meidän vastaeronneitten kesken"
"Xanapantrevomai tin gynaika mou"
"그의 연인 프라이데이"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:8208, Added: 02/18/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024