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 »



Hildy:
Mrs. Baldwin - Mother!

Mrs. Baldwin:
Don't you 'Mother' me! Playing cat and mouse with my poor boy, keeping him locked up, making us miss two trains and you supposed to be married tomorrow.

Hildy:
I'll be with you in five minutes.

Mrs. Baldwin:
You don't have to go with me at all. Just give me Bruce's money and you can stay here forever as far as I'm concerned - you and that murderer you caught...Which one of these men is it? They all look like murderers to me.

Endicott:
Wait a minute, Hildy. What murderer did you catch?...

Hildy:
I don't know what she's talking about. I haven't said any such thing.

Mrs. Baldwin:
I am quoting my son, and he has never lied to me.

Hildy:
That's ridiculous. In the first place, I never said anything like that.

Mrs. Baldwin:
Yes you did.

Hildy:
No, I didn't. I said I was trying to find the murderer. [To the news-hungry reporters] She got it all balled up. Can't you see that?

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