Watch His Girl Friday by Howard Hawks
Good reasons to watch His Girl Friday
As his ex-wife slash best investigative reporter (Rosalind Russell) is about to remarry with a dull slash naïve guy (how dares she) and quit the business, a New York newspaper editor (Cary Grant) caters to her reporting instinct – what if this man on the death row were innocent? – and to every trick in the book to get her back.
For the snobs out there, it’s one of the best screwball comedies ever made, with Cary Grant and Rosaling Russell on an equal footing of wit and energy.
For those who like a good laugh, it’s a maelstrom of one-liners, a satire of love story, a witty and fast-paced battle of the sexes, a 90mph ping pong game between Russell and Grant.
For those versed in sociology, it’s an acid portrait of a newspaper in the 1940s, with politics, cynicism and manipulation aplenty.
Intense, theatrical, cruel and funny: all is fair in love and journalism!
All You Need to Know about His Girl Friday
1940 - 92 min
Director Howard Hawks
Stars Cary Grant - Rosalind Russell - Ralph Bellamy
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