Movie #499 ........................."His Girl Friday"

Movie #499 "His Girl Friday" -- okay, so this year I went to Timeline and saw "The Front Page" and it was good, but not near as good as this version of the same story. Why? It was turned into a romantic screwball comedy that works. how? by changing one of the characters (Hildy Johnson) to a woman from a man. Then, you add speed to the lines so there's no dragging (like in the stage play) and make it sexual banter and voila----you have one of the best screwball comedies of all time. If you haven't seen this, you need to ---esp. if you ordinarily don't like romantic comedies. This is a must see! And they show it uninterrupted quite regularly on my favorite channel TCM! which only has a few more days of its "one actor per day in August" programming. yesterday was Cary Grant, today Joan Crawford, and the list goes on! check it out this week!



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His Girl Friday
(1940) NR
Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) is about to get hitched to dull insurance agent Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy) -- that's if her ex-husband, ruthless newspaper publisher Walter Burns (Cary Grant), doesn't succeed in winning her back in this battle-of-the-sexes screwball comedy. Meanwhile, reporters salivating for the scoop on a local voting conspiracy is just a minor distraction as Burns pulls out all the stops for the woman he loves.
Genre: Classic Movies, Comedies, Classic Comedies, Screwball Comedies
This movie is: Witty