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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A newspaper editor (Cary Grant) uses the temptation of a big story to keep his ace reporter ex-wife (Rosalind Russell) from leaving and getting married to a straight-laced insurance agent (Ralph Bellamy), whom he doesn't believe is worthy of her. The explosive story involves the unfair execution of a convicted cop killer, a bumbling sheriff, a corrupt mayor, and the course of true love. written by Charles Lederer based on the play "The Front Page" by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur directed by Howard Hawks Cary Grant as Walter Burns Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin Gene Lockhart as Sheriff Hartwell Porter Hall as Murphy Ernest Truex as Bensinger Cliff Edwards as Endicott Clarence Kolb as Mayor Roscoe Karns as McCue Frank Jenks as Wilson Regis Toomey as Sanders
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- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Starring
- Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb
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