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His Girl Friday

They're at each other's throats when they're not in each other's arms!

1940 · NR · 1h 32m

Directed by Howard Hawks

7.4

TMDB audience score
993 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

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Rent

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Cast

  • Cary Grant
    Walter Burns

  • Rosalind Russell
    Hildy Johnson

  • Ralph Bellamy
    Bruce Baldwin

  • Gene Lockhart
    Sheriff Hartwell

  • Porter Hall
    Murphy

  • Ernest Truex
    Bensinger

  • Cliff Edwards
    Endicott

  • Clarence Kolb
    Mayor

  • Roscoe Karns
    McCue

  • Frank Jenks
    Wilson

  • Regis Toomey
    Sanders

  • Abner Biberman
    Louie

  • Frank Orth
    Duffy

  • John Qualen
    Earl Williams

  • Helen Mack
    Mollie Malloy

  • Alma Kruger
    Mrs. Baldwin

  • Billy Gilbert
    Joe Pettibone

  • Pat West
    Warden Cooley