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His Girl Friday is a 1940 screwball comedy, a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page
, itself an adaption by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of their play of the same name. One major alteration was made for this incarnation: the character of Hildy Johnson was changed from a man to a woman, putting a different spin on the story.

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Cary Grant is hard-boiled newspaper editor Walter Burns, Rosalind Russell his ex-wife and former star reporter. She wants to marry Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy) and settle down to a normal life, but Burns has other ideas. When a convicted murderer escapes from the bumbling sheriff (Gene Lockhart) on the eve of his execution, Burns entices Johnson to cover one last story, and then the fun begins.

His Girl Friday was directed by Howard Hawks and is noted for the rapidfire wit and extremely fast pace of the dialogue.

The film is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films, was #19 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Laughs, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Some memorable moments incorporate real life references: Burns tells Ralph Bellamy's character that he looks a lot like an actor...Ralph Bellamy; later, Burns notes that the last person who crossed him and lived to regret it was Archie Leach – Grant's real name.

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