His Girl Friday

Introduction and comments following His Girl Friday, 1940, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guest Anderson Cooper.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces His Girl Friday, 1940.

Introduction and comments following His Girl Friday, 1940, with Illeana Douglas and Carol Burnett.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces His Girl Friday, 1940.

Robert Osborne introduces His Girl Friday, 1940.

In the press room at the courthouse, Howard Hawks directs the guys from Ben Hecht’s original play (Roscoe Karns as McCue, Porter Hall as Murphy, Ernest Truex as Roy, Cliff Edwards as Endicott, Frank Jenks as Wilson), and Roz Russell convincing as the title character, their pal Hildy, informing them she’s done, in His Girl Friday, 1940.

Editor and ex-husband Walter (Cary Grant) is angling to get ex-wife and star reporter Hildy (Rosalind Russell) to put off her honeymoon with Bruce (Ralph Bellamy) and come back to cover the hot murder trial, early in Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday, 1940.

Reporter Hildy (Rosalind Russell) tells ex-husband and almost-ex boss editor Walter (Cary Grant) of another scoop, he sends vamp Vangie (Marion Martin) and hood Louie (Abner Biberman) to scam her waiting fiancè Bruce (Ralph Bellamy), Howard Hawks directing the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur dialogue sprint, in His Girl Friday, 1940.

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Having put off her honeymoon for one last paycheck to cover the big execution, star reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) finagles an interview with the convict (John Qualen), in Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday, 1940, based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's The Front Page.

Rosalind Russell as Hildy in her famous suit, Ralph Bellamy her new boyfriend, Cary Grant her ex-husband and editor, and Howard Hawks directing with his famous pace, opening the hit 1940 adaptation of the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's The Front Page, His Girl Friday.

Cary Grant does everything to keep his ex-wife and star reporter Rosalind Russell from re-marriage in Howard Hawks' classic comedy His Girl Friday (1940).