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 ...

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.

and His Girl Friday. Born Archibald Leech in England, Grant started performing at a young age with a theater group, The ...

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 ...

“His Girl Friday” is an exception, with no embraces or passionate kissing. Perhaps this lack of affection highlights the deeply unconventional nature of Hildy’s relationships with the men in her life.

His plan includes doing whatever he can to place Bruce in a bad light, while dangling a big story under her nose, namely covering what the newspaper believes is the unfair imminent execution of ...

His Girl Friday No doubt aiming to dodge the stigma of having His Girl Friday termed a remake, Columbia blithely skips a pertinent point in the credits by merely stating 'From a play by Ben Hecht ...

It's been a while coming, but this UK DVD release of Howard Hawks' screwball comedy delight "His Girl Friday" is most welcome. Previous VHS releases were simply awful with terrible sound and a ...