His Girl Friday

1940 · Directed by Howard Hawks

Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

comedy romance

Cast: Gene Lockhart, Rosalind Russell, Ann Doran, Cary Grant, James Millican, Ralph Bellamy, John Qualen, Irving Bacon, Porter Hall, Billy Gilbert

Rating: 7.411/10 from 645 votes