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Title:

His girl Friday / Columbia Pictures presents ; screenwriter, Ben Hecht ; director, Howard Hawks.

Edition:

[Blu-ray version].

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet

Other Authors:

Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977, film director.
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964, screenwriter.
Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor.
Russell, Rosalind, actor.
Bellamy, Ralph, 1904-1991, actor.
Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964. Front page.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Title from container. Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: New interview with film scholar David Brodwell; archival interviews with director Howard Hawks; featurettes from 1999 and 2006 about Hawks, Rosalind Russell, and the making of; radio adaptation from 1940; His Girl Friday trailers; booklet. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart.

Summary:

Hildy Johnson is a reporter. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that₂s supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife.

Series:

Criterion collection

OCLC:

(OCoLC)966646492

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)