His Girl Friday
One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (played by the peerless Cary Grant), who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that’s supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife. When adapting Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s smash hit play The Front Page, director Howard Hawks had the inspired idea of turning star reporter Hildy Johnson into a woman, and the result is an immortal mix of hard-boiled newsroom setting with ebullient remarriage comedy. Also presented here is a brand-new restoration of the 1931 film The Front Page, Lewis Milestone’s famous pre-Code adaptation of the same material.
TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration of His Girl Friday, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New 4K digital restoration of The Front Page, made from a recently discovered print of director Lewis Milestone’s preferred version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New interview with film scholar David Bordwell about His Girl Friday
- Archival interviews with His Girl Friday director Howard Hawks
- Featurettes from 1999 and 2006 about Hawks, actor Rosalind Russell, and the making of His Girl Friday
- Radio adaptation of His Girl Friday from 1940
- New piece about the restoration of The Front Page
- New piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht
- Radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946
- His Girl Friday trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Plus: Essays on His Girl Friday and The Front Page by film critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow
New cover by Randy Glass
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration of His Girl Friday, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New 4K digital restoration of The Front Page, made from a recently discovered print of director Lewis Milestone’s preferred version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New interview with film scholar David Bordwell about His Girl Friday
- Archival interviews with His Girl Friday director Howard Hawks
- Featurettes from 1999 and 2006 about Hawks, actor Rosalind Russell, and the making of His Girl Friday
- Radio adaptation of His Girl Friday from 1940
- New piece about the restoration of The Front Page
- New piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht
- Radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946
- His Girl Friday trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Plus: Essays on His Girl Friday and The Front Page by film critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow
New cover by Randy Glass
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
- Edwin Maxwell
- Dr. Egelhoffer
Credits
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Screenplay
- Charles Lederer
- From the original play The Front Page by
- Ben Hecht
- From the original play The Front Page by
- Charles MacArthur
- Producer
- Jed Harris
- Director of photography
- Joseph Walker
- Editor
- Gene Havlick
- Art director
- Lionel Banks
- Gowns by
- Kalloch
- Musical director
- M. W. Stoloff
Edition introduction to His Girl Friday
A scene from His Girl Friday
