HIS GIRL FRIDAY is a sparkling screwball comedy, a tour de farce of rapid pacing, twisted plots, over-lapping dialogue and delicious in-jokes starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell at their giddy, charming best.
Considered by many to be the best of Howard Hawks comedies, HIS GIRL FRIDAY was adapted from Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthurs oft-filmed Broadway smash The Front Page, with a screenplay by Charles Lederer. Hawks changed the sex of one of the male leads and revamped the spoof of newspapers and news hounds into a hilarious and sophisticated battle of the sexes and battle of the exes.
When ace reporter Hildy Johnson announces shes leaving the newspaper world behind to settle into domesticity with a stuffy fianceher demanding editor and ex-husband Walter Burns is determined to keep her on staff and win back her heart in the process. Much has been said about the films breakneck dialogue pacing, which captures the delirious quality of a bustling newsroom..