His Girl Friday
His Girl Friday - was released on: 18 January 1940.
The movie had an excellent cast consisting of:
- Cary Grant… - played the character of: Walter Burns
- Rosalind Russell… - played the character of: Hildegaard ‘Hildy’ Johnson
- Ralph Bellamy… - played the character of: Bruce Baldwin
- Gene Lockhart… Sheriff Peter B.’Pinky’ Hartwell
- Porter Hall… Murphy - Reporter
- Ernest Truex… Roy V. Bensinger - Reporter
- Cliff Edwards… Endicott - Reporter
- Clarence Kolb… Mayor
- Roscoe Karns… McCue - Reporter
- Frank Jenks… Wilson - Reporter
- Regis Toomey… Sanders - Reporter
- Abner Biberman… Louis ‘Diamond Louie ‘Palutso
- Frank Orth… Duffy - Copy Editor
- John Qualen… - played the character of: Earl Williams
- Helen Mack… - played the character of: Mollie Malloy
Here is a summary of the film’s plot:
Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day after. Walter Burns can’t let that happen and frames the other man, Bruce Baldwin, for a lot of stuff getting him into trouble all the time, while he tries to steer Hildy back into her old job as his employee (editor of his newspaper). Written by Lars J. Aas {larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no}