His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday

92 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Jan. 18, 1940

Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

His Girl Friday

92 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Jan. 18, 1940

His Girl Friday
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title His Girl Friday
Directors Cliff P. Broughton, Howard Hawks
Writers Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer

Cast

Cary Grant

as Walter Burns

Rosalind Russell

as Hildy Johnson

Ralph Bellamy

as Bruce Baldwin

Gene Lockhart

as Sheriff Hartwell

Helen Mack

as Mollie Malloy

Porter Hall

as Murphy

Ernest Truex

as Bensinger

Cliff Edwards

as Endicott

Clarence Kolb

as Mayor

Roscoe Karns

as McCue

Frank Jenks

as Wilson

Regis Toomey

as Sanders

Abner Biberman

as Louie

Frank Orth

as Duffy

John Qualen

as Earl Williams

Alma Kruger

as Mrs. Baldwin

Billy Gilbert

as Joe Pettibone

Pat West

as Warden Cooley

Edwin Maxwell

as Dr. Egelhoffer

Irving Bacon

as Gus (uncredited)

Wade Boteler

as Mike (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley

as Insurance Doctor (uncredited)

Wheaton Chambers

as Elevator Passenger (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

as Cop (uncredited)

Ann Doran

as Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

Ralph Dunn

as Plainclothesman (uncredited)

Earl Dwire

as Pete Davis (uncredited)

Pat Flaherty

as Frank the Policeman (uncredited)

Jack Gardner

as Elevator Passenger (uncredited)

Eddie Hart

as Carl the Plainclothesman (uncredited)

Marion Martin

as Evangeline (uncredited)

Frank McLure

as Newsman (uncredited)

James Millican

as Tim (uncredited)

Gene Morgan

as Gene (uncredited)

Delmar Watson

as Skinny (uncredited)