A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of the first films (preceded by Stage Door (1937)) to have characters talk over the lines of other characters, for a more realistic sound. Prior to this, movie characters completed their lines before the next lines were started.
- GoofsWhen Bruce Baldwin comes to the press room late in the movie, an electric fan and small shelf on the wall to the left of the door both completely disappear. Both have been there in all previous scenes and both reappear after this scene.
- Quotes
[describing Bruce]
Walter Burns: He looks like that fellow in the movies - Ralph Bellamy.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: It all happened in the "Dark Ages" of the newspaper game--when to a reporter "Getting that story" justified anything short of murder.
Incidentally you will see in this picture no resemblance to the man and woman of the press today.
Ready?
Well, once upon a time - -
- ConnectionsEdited into This Is It (2009)
Featured review
What a gem!
I just finished watching the DVD of this first-class, semi-Screwball comedy in Columbia Classics beautiful transfer, and it absolutely made my day! What a movie! What a screenplay! The dialogue is better - more modern - in fact, than a in lot of contemporary movies. It's incredibly funny, too, and my teenage sons kept laughing right along with me at the smart come-backs. Cary Grant is, of course, as good (if not better) than ever, and I've never seen Rosalind Russel in a role that suited her more perfectly. And that's just for starters: The timing of the thing is still awe- inspiring after sixty-odd years; the supporting actors, down to the bit-players, are all memorable, convincing and hilarious; the camera work (this IS the forties, though) is inventive and the editing superb. I can safely confess now that I hadn't ever seen it before, but that's no reason for you to make the same mistake: Go buy/rent it NOW! Hats off to the great Howard Hawks, his cast and crew for pulling this comedy masterpiece off. And thank you, thank you, thank you Columbia Pictures, for
making it possible for me to watch it in such pristine condition! (I've got the 2002 edition, and from what I've heard you should beware of earlier DVD issues).
making it possible for me to watch it in such pristine condition! (I've got the 2002 edition, and from what I've heard you should beware of earlier DVD issues).
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- banjoboy
- Aug 30, 2003
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- Also known as
- Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $296,000
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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