His Girl Friday
1940, NR, 92 min. Directed by Howard Hawks. Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy.
REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Fri., June 9, 1995
His Girl Friday (as well as The Awful Truth) highlights Cary Grant and Ralph Bellamy in their eternal stereotypes of the cad who gets the girl and the nerd who loses out.
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His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy