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His Girl Friday DVD

His Girl Friday is one of the, oh, five greatest dialogue comedies ever made; Hawks had his cast play it at breakneck speed, and audiences hyperventilate trying to finish with one laugh so they can do justice to the four that have accumulated in the meantime. Russell, not Hawks's first choice to play Hildy, is triumphant in the part, holding her own as "one of the guys" and creating an enduring feminist icon. Grant is a force of nature, giving a performance of such concentrated frenzy and diamond brilliance that you owe it to yourself to devote at least one viewing of the movie to watching him alone. But then you have to go back (lucky you) and watch it again for the sake of the press-room gang--Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Regis Toomey, Frank Jenks, and others--the kind of ensemble work that gets character actors onto Parnassus. --Richard T. Jameson

The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism for marriage to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Cary Grant plays Walter Burns, Hildy's editor and ex-husband, who feigns happiness about her impending marriage as a ploy to win her back. The ace up Walter's sleeve is a late-breaking news story concerning the impending execution of anarchist Earl Williams (John Qualen), a blatant example of political chicanery that Hildy can't pass up. The story gets hotter when Williams escapes and is hidden from the cops by Hildy and Walter—right in the prison pressroom. His Girl Friday may well be the fastest comedy of the 1930s, with kaleidoscope action, instantaneous plot twists, and overlapping dialogue. And if you listen closely, you'll hear a couple of "in" jokes, one concerning Cary Grant's real name (Archie Leach), and another poking fun at Ralph Bellamy's patented "poor sap" screen image. Subsequent versions of The Front Page included Billy Wilder's 1974 adaptation, which restored Hildy Johnson's manhood in the form of Jack Lemmon, and 1988's Switching Channels, which cast Burt Reynolds in the Walter Burns role and Kathleen Turner as the Hildy Johnson

Cast
Cary Grant  - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell  - Hildy Johnson
Ralph Bellamy  - Bruce Baldwin
Gene Lockhart  - Sheriff Hartwell
Helen Mack  - Mollie Malloy
Porter Hall  - Murphy
John Qualen  - Earl Williams
Ernest Truex  - Roy Bensinger
Clarence Kolb  - Mayor
Cliff Edwards  - Endicott
Roscoe Karns  - McCue
Frank Jenks  - Wilson
Regis Toomey  - Sanders
Abner Biberman  - Diamond Louie
Frank Orth  - Duffy
Alma Kruger  - Mrs. Baldwin
Billy Gilbert  - Joe Pettibone
Pat West  - Warden Cooley
Edwin Maxwell  - Dr. Egelhoffer
Edmund Cobb  - Cop
Wade Boteler  - Jail Guard
Irving Bacon  - Gus
Eddie Hart   
Pat Flaherty   
Ralph Dunn  - Guard
Earl Dwire  - Mr. Davis
Marion Martin   

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 The Awful Truth  (1937, Leo McCarey)
 Laws of Attraction  (2004, Peter Howitt)
 Mr. & Mrs. Smith  (1941, Alfred Hitchcock)
 Everything Happens at Night  (1939, Irving Cummings)
 Bringing Up Baby  (1938, Howard Hawks)
 The Philadelphia Story  (1940, George Cukor)
 Switching Channels  (1988, Ted Kotcheff)
 The Pajama Game  (1957, George Abbott, Stanley Donen)
 
Movies with the Same Personnel
 Twentieth Century  (1934, Howard Hawks)
 Only Angels Have Wings  (1939, Howard Hawks)
 Bringing Up Baby  (1938, Howard Hawks)
 Man's Favorite Sport?  (1963, Howard Hawks)
 Monkey Business  (1952, Howard Hawks)
 To Have and Have Not  (1944, Howard Hawks)
 Scarface  (1932, Howard Hawks)
 The Thing  (1951, Christian Nyby)
 
Other Related Movies
 has been remade as:   The Front Page  (1974, Billy Wilder)
   Switching Channels  (1988, Ted Kotcheff)
 influenced:   I Love Trouble  (1994, Charles Shyer)
 is related to:   The Amazing Adventure  (1936, Alfred Zeisler)
   The Hollywood Collection: Cary Grant - The Leading Man  (1988)
   The Front Page  (1931, Lewis Milestone)
   Gunga Din  (1939, George Stevens)
   Monkey Business  (1952, Howard Hawks)
   I Was a Male War Bride  (1949, Howard Hawks)

The Amazing Adventure DVD

Amazing Quest was the original British release title of the 1937 comedy Romance and Riches (aka Riches and Romance). Making a rare return trip to England, Cary Grant plays the heir to a huge fortune. Alas, Grant is miserable, because he's never worked for his money. Determined to prove his worth, Grant makes a wager than he can earn his keep for a full year without ever touching the family millions. He loses his bet when he must draw upon his money to wed poverty-stricken Mary Brian, the better to save her from an unhappy marriage of convenience. Still, his experiences among the working classes have left an indelible impression; turning his back on his "equals," Grant invites all of his newly acquired lowborn friends to his wedding reception. Like His Girl Friday, Penny Serenade, and Charade, Amazing Quest is one on the ever-growing list of Cary Grant films that have lapsed into public domain, and thus are more readily available than when first released. Amazing Quest was based on a novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim.

Cast
Cary Grant  - Ernest Bliss
Mary Brian  - Frances Clayton
Peter Gawthorne  - Sir James Aldroyd
Henry Kendall  - Lord Ronnie Honiton
Leon M. Lion  - Dorrington
John Turnbull  - Masters
Arthur Hardy  - Crawley
Iris Ashley  - Clare Winters
Garry Marsh  - The Buyer
Andrea Malandrinos  - Giuseppe
Alfred Wellesley  - Montague
Marie Wright  - Mrs. Heath
Buena Bent  - Mrs. Mott
Charles Farrell  - Scales
Hal Gordon  - Bill Bronson
Alf Goddard  - Butcher Bill
Moore Marriott  - Edwards
Quinton McPherson  - Clowes
Frank Stanmore  - Mr. Mott
Ralph Richardson  - Waiter

Movies with the Same Personnel
 The Front Page  (1931, Lewis Milestone)
 Number 17  (1932, Alfred Hitchcock)
 Holiday  (1938, George Cukor)
 Operation Petticoat  (1959, Blake Edwards)
 His Girl Friday  (1940, Howard Hawks)
 The Philadelphia Story  (1940, George Cukor)
 Once Upon a Honeymoon  (1942, Leo McCarey)
 Father Goose  (1964, Ralph Nelson)
 
Other Related Movies
 is related to:   Charade  (1953, Roy Kellino)
   His Girl Friday  (1940, Howard Hawks)
   Penny Serenade  (1941, George Stevens)
   The Toast of New York  (1937, Rowland V. Lee)
   Topper  (1937, Norman Z. McLeod)