His Girl Friday remains one of his best films – and one of Hollywood’s best – for how it managed to combine comedy and drama, to make a movie about work and love, about professionalism ...

His Girl Friday is crazily blissful to watch, and groundbreaking for the way Hawks orchestrated so many rapid-fire lines. The movie’s dialogue overlaps, boomerangs, skitters between characters ...

The geographical riddle at the heart of “His Girl Friday” involves more than bragging rights to a great movie. It’s a matter of civic ownership and Chicago’s very soul. I can’t put it ...

Rewrite of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play "The Front Page" is about a newspaper editor who goes to extraordinary lengths to keep his best reporter (who is also his ex-wife) from remarrying ...

Each Friday, we’re going to profile ... This week’s Final Girl is Ellen Ripley. NOTE: Spoilers for the Alien movies follow. Ripley, as played by Sigourney Weaver, in all four Alien movies.

Now, Jared Reed – the artistic director of Hedgerow – and theater-artist-about-town Damon Bonetti have adapted the classic movie and have definitely not put their own stamp on it. It’s a wise move: ...

Having been away for four months, Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) walks into the offices of the New York City-based The Morning Post, where she is a star reporter, to tell her boss, editor Walter ...

By THR Staff On Jan. 11, 1940, Columbia bowed director-producer Howard Hawks’ newspaper comedy His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, at Radio City Music Hall in New York.