His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday1940

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 92 minutes

The Front Page, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic 1928 newspaper play, has had three official film versions and contributed structural DNA to half the movies ever made about professional camaraderie and fierce love-hate friendships. Lewis Mi… more »



Walter:
What's the use of fighting, Hildy? I'll tell you what you do. You come back to work on the paper, and if we find we can't get along in a friendly fashion, we'll get married again.

Hildy:
Oh Walter, you're wonderful - in a loathsome sort of way. Listen, Walter, you are no longer my husband and no longer my boss. And you're not going to be my boss.

Walter:
All right, take it. Work for somebody else. That's the gratitude I get.

Hildy:
Oh, I wish you'd stop hamming.

Walter:
What were you when you came here five years ago? A little college girl from a school of journalism. I took a doll-faced hick.

Hildy:
Well, you wouldn't take me if I hadn't been doll-faced...

Walter:
Listen. I made a great reporter out of you, Hildy. But you won't be half as good on any other paper and you know it. We're a team. That's what we are. You need me and I need you, and the paper needs both of us.

Hildy:
Sold American! Listen, Walter, the paper's gonna have to get along without me. So are you. It just didn't work out, Walter.

Walter:
Well, it would have worked out if you'd been satisfied with just being editor and reporter - but not you! You had to marry me and spoil everything.

Hildy:
I wasn't satisfied? I suppose I proposed to you?

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