His Girl Friday

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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KEYWORDS FOR THIS FILM

His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

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