His Girl Friday
1940, NR, 92 min.
Directed by Howard Hawks, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy.

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. Rosalind Russell is the fast-talking reporter they’re both crazy about in this zingy screwball comedy.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.