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HIs Girl Friday watch along (Patreon)

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2025-04-11 13:00:33
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all I have to say is this is a perfect film! 10/10

enjoy! this is a FUN reaction!

xx

ames

Free link on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVZXblHWXI&ab_channel=RetroCentral

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His Girl Friday (1940)

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MikeLL

Brilliant Howard Hawks comedy (I'm not sure it fits in the screwball category, though everyone says it does) that is known for its rapid fire and overlapping dialogue, an innovation of it's day. Can't wait for some more Howard Hawks movies. I'm sure there are more on the AFI list. I can think of Rio Bravo off the top of my head and a few Bogart movies. For those of you who have been around longer than I have, has she seen any, or how many Hawks movies has Aames seen?

Henry Graham

Howard Hawks is one of the all-time greats. He pretty much pioneered the screwball comedy with Twentieth Century, and he kept proving himself to be the absolute master of the form, reaching an apotheosis with Girl Friday, while also showing his skills in pretty much any genre he turned his hand to. I always marvel when I consider this three-year run, which I doubt anyone will ever better - Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), Ball of Fire (1941). Mind-boggling brilliance!

Catchermag

I love a fast talkin dame. Coincidentally I just watched this recently, but it will be a great reaction!

AstralCars

Dialogue so fast that they may count this as the first recorded rap album!

Toc

Yes!!!!! His Girl Friday.....on Friday! :P Running out to do some chores, CANNOT WAIT. I'm ready for fast dialog and some serious 1940's hat wear!!!!

Catchermag

Great fun. To clear up something, Ralph Bellamy is the actor that played Bruce Baldwin. So when Walter says Bruce looks like the actor Ralph Bellamy, that was just a wink at the audience.

JM63

Here's an ad-free version on the Internet Archive. Opening in Firefox (instead of Chrome) lets you resize the picture-in-picture image (hover over bottom right corner of streaming window to access) to whatever size you want. https://archive.org/details/his-girl-friday-1940_202109

JM63

Fantastic reaction! Not only is this a masterpiece in terms of acting and directing, it's also a technical miracle -- multitrack recording hadn't been developed yet and mics weren't nearly as sensitive and precise as they are today. Props to whoever the sound mixer was for dealing with this crazy dialogue! (I like to close my eyes and listen to portions of it like it's a radio play; the distinctive voices, rhythms, and overlapping dialogue give it a great atmospheric feel.) Hildy is a boss! What an action sequence!

VivendoBem

This (movie and reaction) seemed to go by in five minutes! Way to go Ames in what must have been a fiendishly difficult movie to react to for its pace alone. So much going on, so fast paced but once you’ve seen it a few times and can keep from being totally awe struck by the dialogue, the secret ingredient to this movie are the expressions on the actors’ faces and the framing of shots. Everything is rich and magnificent—no fat, no gristle. A bullet train penned (mostly) by Morrie Ryskind. A word about director Howard Hawks, not quite as famous a name as Hitch or John Ford, but no less the towering giant. In fact, a craftsman who never realized he was also an artist, Hawks may have been the greatest of all of them. Starting in Silents and ending with two Jimmy Caan pictures, his career certainly spanned the eras. He could and did make all time classic movies in just about every genre and style (as long as they were about interesting people doing interesting things). While having no showy signature “style” that easily marked his movies (Wells famously said, “Hawks was great prose, Ford was poetry”) Hawksian women did become an archetype: tough and smart but not overly feminine He made undeniable contributions to The Gangster picture (Scarface), Musicals (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Westerns (Red River, Rio Bravo—which he liked so much he remade it twice as El Dorado and finally Rio Lobo) War (Sergeant York), Detective Noir (The Big Sleep), Adventure (Hatari! Only Angels Have Wings,) and certainly Comedy, specifically Screwball (too many to list, but this one, Bringing Up Baby and Ball of Fire being the best). Hawks also may have been the best director of his era in understanding the importance of actors and as result, Hawks is one of the principal engineers behind public perceptions of some of the great classic movie stars. From Cary Grant (this movie as well as Bringing Up Baby plus 3 other lesser remembered ones) and Duke Wayne (Red River as well as the 3 Rio/El movies aforementioned) to Marilyn Monroe (Gentleman Prefer Blondes) and Bogart (The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not). Russell is, of course, astonishing and deserves all her plaudits for Hildy, one of her signature roles, it is yet another example of Cary Grant “giving away” the movie to his leading lady. It’s difficult to say which picture is Grant’s best as he was, imo, Hollywood’s greatest ever star, but this has to be in consideration. Absolute top of his game here in 1 of 3 Comedies of Remarriage he made in 1940 alone (The Philadelphia Story, My Favorite Wife not to mention 1937’s amazing The Awful Truth or 1941’s Penny Serenade) he’s so devilishly charming and funny that it might be a record for how quickly we forget how difficult it is to do what he’s doing. BTW, the Criterion Blu-Ray release of His Girl Friday is one of the best they’ve ever done, bursting with special features. If anyone’s tempted, I wholeheartedly recommend picking it up.

Reggie

Cary Grant makes a reference to a fellow named "Archie Leach" toward the end of the movie. Cary Grant's real name was Archibald Leach :) BTW, I think the actor who played the sheriff was the same actor who played the judge in Miracle on 34th street. One of the unscrupulous reporters was also in that movie as the staff “psychiatrist” with Macy’s.

Catchermag

I don’t know which you watched first, but the frantic pace of the speech pattern in this would definitely help with Double Indemnity. Looking forward to that one. And Before Sunset tomorrow!

Clay F

I liked it. Thanks for the reaction. I like it better than Arsenic and Old Lace. I could tell you enjoyed the movie (as you confirmed in the outro). You had the smiles (and face lighting up) going with Cary Grant, and you liked Rosalind Russell (Susan Sarandon does seem to resemble in ways). The arc with Walter and Hildy was interesting from taking cuts at each other early in the movie to being a team toward the end to what seemed like ambiguity at the very end. I haven't seen many Cary Grant movies. I think North by Northwest (a different kind of movie) remains my favorite. But this movie is dynamic. Hard not to like Cary Grant. 1940 is the year that Germany essentially took control of (most of) continental Europe. Thanks for youtube link -- much better quality than what is streaming on Amazon Prime.