His Girl Friday
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Howard Hawks
Writer: Charles Lederer, Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht
Producer: Howard Hawks
His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man.
Trivia
- Based on The Front Page (play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur).
- Cary Grant was almost immediately cast in the film, but Cohn initially intended Grant to play the reporter, with radio commentator Walter Winchell as the editor.
- Hawks's production that became His Girl Friday was originally intended to be a straightforward adaptation of The Front Page, with both the editor and reporter being male.
- During auditions, Howard Hawks's secretary, a woman, read reporter Hildy Johnson's lines.
Previous Showings
16 Runs • 10 Festivals
21,773 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (February 28, 1940)
Original Run: February 28, 1940 (Wednesday - Saturday)
All runs on record (16):
- February 28, 1940 (Wednesday - Saturday)Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
- November 18 - 20, 1990 · 774 ticketsw/ They Drive by Night
- August 22 - 25, 1992 · 2,364 ticketsw/ I'm No Angel
- May 2 - 6, 1994 · 1,359 ticketsw/ Bringing Up Baby
- September 2 - 6, 1995 · 2,139 ticketsw/ The Philadelphia Story
- July 4 - 5, 1996 · 1,362 ticketsw/ The Thin Man
- November 28 - December 1, 1998 · 1,453 ticketsRomantic Comedy Seriesw/ It Happened One Night
- July 22 - 23, 1999 · 1,184 ticketssummer99w/ Bringing Up Baby
- July 7 - 14, 2000 · 1,997 ticketsSummer 2000w/ It Happened One Night
- April 5 - 11, 2002 · 1,939 ticketscg2-2002w/ My Favorite Wife
- July 21 - 24, 2007 · 1,772 ticketsSummer 2007 63 films in 12 weeks, including 22 films starring Fred Astairew/ Broadway Melody of 1940
- October 20 - 22, 2009 · 477 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ Arsenic and Old Lace
- May 11 - 13, 2012 · 1,388 ticketsHoward Hawksw/ Ball of Fire
- May 8 - 10, 2015 · 1,239 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ Wedding Present
- July 8 - 9, 2023 · 1,115 ticketsSummer 2023: The Best of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcockw/ Only Angels Have Wings
- September 6 - 7, 2025 · 1,211 ticketsSummer 2025w/ Bringing Up Baby