Description

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. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of murderer Earl Williams as Burns desperately tries to win back his wife. The screenplay was adapted from the 1928 play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. This was the second time the play had been adapted for the screen, the first occasion being the 1931 film which kept the original title The Front Page.

Cast

• Cary Grant as Walter Burns
• Rosalind Russell as Hildegard “Hildy” Johnson
• Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin
• Alma Kruger as Mrs. Baldwin, Bruce’s mother
• Gene Lockhart as Sheriff Peter B. Hartwell
• Clarence Kolb as Mayor Fred
• Abner Biberman as Louis “Diamond Louie” Palutso
• John Qualen as Earl Williams
• Helen Mack as Mollie Malloy
• Porter Hall as Reporter Murphy
• Ernest Truex as Reporter Roy V. Bensinger
• Cliff Edwards as Reporter Endicott
• Roscoe Karns as Reporter McCue
• Frank Jenks as Reporter Wilson
• Regis Toomey as Reporter Sanders
• Frank Orth as Duffy, Walter’s copy editor
• Billy Gilbert as Joe Pettibone
• Arthur Pat West as Warden Cooley
• Edwin Maxwell as Dr. Max J. Eggelhoffer