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His Girl Friday (1940) - Uncut Version (Patreon)

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2026-10-31 22:00:12
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2026-11
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Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Abner Biberman, Helen Mack

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Erin Mileur

Ralph Bellamy had a really interesting career in the 30s and 40s he always ended up playing the guy the leading lady dumps for someone else. But later in life he is most well known for playing FDR multiple times and for most as Randolph Duke in Trading Places (1983).

Julzy

Now remember what a fast talker Auntie Mame was...this dialogue is even faster if possible! Had such a thing for 40's movie stars: Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck...speaking of Peck - check him out in Twelve O'Clock High.

Erin Mileur

His Girl Friday is the second film adaption of the play the Front Page and for this version they did make changes from the original play. It was first adapted in 1930 as The Front Page and was remade again as The Front Page (1974) this time with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and directed by Billy Wilder. It was adapted again in 1988 under the title Switching Channels but this time set at a TV news station and starring Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner, and Christopher Reeve.

vala p

I figure the Gilmore Girls watch this movie and say slow down you're talking too fast

Hunter Kragh

No, the ending shows that they are alike and so better suited to each other. She has the exact same behaviour she criticized in him. She ignores her fiancee when the story is unfolding, which is exactly what she was annoyed he did. Both of them are journalists to the core and she ends up realizing she would be miserable behind a white picket fence.

Ryan

The really neat thing is that in the original play, Hildy is a man. But they manage to make the switch, and the romance that comes with it, feel totally natural.

I🖤Kraken

God I love this movie. I see something new every time I watch it. I had to drop out of journalism101 bc I just couldn't write the inverted triangle: who, what, where, when, how, and why? I've known reporters all my life and from freshman to the pros, they're a-d-d-i-c-t-e-d to chasing that triangle. You guys are right, in their zeal to meet a deadline, hacks will drop the why of the story. But, Hildy & Walter are so talented that they do it all. HGF has been an inspiration for Tracy&Hepburn, Gilmore Girls, Broadcast News and so many more over the years. It's still an absolute icon.

that girl

Hildy was actually played by Boris Karloff

that girl

"He looks like that fellow in the movies... Ralph Bellamy" You may have realised it since then, but he looks like that fellow because he's played by that fellow.

Carl Wilson

Yeah, I feel like it's very clear (in a very screwball comedy way) that it takes this adventure to cure her of feeling like she wants a conventional life, and to let her be her true self.

Carl Wilson

I know what you mean but I've also known a lot of reporters who care a *lot about the "why" and will fight for it with real conviction. (Often against editors who lose sight of that under pressure from their publishing bosses in turn.)

Youtalkingtome

What a weird niche trope role to fall into. “This guy looks sweet but dumpable.”

I🖤Kraken

Agreed! Plenty of champions still out there, thank goodness.

Ben Gilbert

He received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for The Awful Truth in 1937 where he played a similar role opposite Grant and Irene Dunne. In 1986, he was presented with an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement.

Ben Gilbert

I didn’t care for the Billy Wilder version. Being a writer he wanted all of his dialogue understood so he didn’t have the rapid-fire overlapping lines .