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* ComedyOfRemarriageComedyOfRemarriage: With a DownerEnding for Hildy -- Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change.
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* DisposableFiance: Bruce.
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* DisposableFiance: Bruce. Walter sets him up for never-ending humiliation and Hildy abandons him because she likes being a reporter too much.
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* IntrepidReporter: Hildy. Also deconstructed -- she, Burns and all the other reporters that appear throughout the film are nothing but a bunch of nearly inhuman manipulative, lying, petty and unfeeling bastards that jump on anything that looks like an exclusive not unlike vultures on a fresh carcass.
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* IntrepidReporter: Hildy. Also deconstructed -- she, Burns and all the other reporters that appear throughout the film are nothing but a bunch of nearly inhuman manipulative, lying, petty and unfeeling bastards that and have little to no concern in either destroying or saving other people's lives with the stuff they spin and jump on anything that looks like an exclusive not unlike vultures on a fresh carcass. Hildy and Burns do save Williams' life, but it's mostly for the sake of controlling the story -- bear in mind that Hildy ''destroys an article that would have saved Williams earlier in the film just to thumb her nose at Walter.''
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* AllForNothing: The reason Hildy wanted to divorce Walter in the first place is he's MarriedToTheJob and ignored her in favor of getting the scoop (even canceling their honeymoon to cover a mine accident). The movie ends with them deciding to stay married and have a second honeymoon-- which Walter asks to make in Albany to cover a big union strike. You can practically see the disappointment in Hildy's face.
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* AllForNothing: The reason Hildy wanted to divorce Walter in the first place is he's MarriedToTheJob and ignored her in favor of getting the scoop (even canceling their honeymoon to cover a mine accident). The movie ends with them deciding to stay married and have a second honeymoon-- honeymoon -- which Walter asks to make in Albany to cover a big union strike. You can practically see the disappointment in Hildy's face.
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* IntrepidReporter: Hildy. Also deconstructed -- she, Burns and all the other reporters that appear throughout the film are nothing but a bunch of nearly inhuman manipulative, lying, petty and unfeeling bastards that jump on anything that looks like an exclusive not unlike vultures on a fresh carcass.
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* NoodleIncident: The Albany story. Hildy kicks Walter in the shin because he almost reveals that the two of them had been sharing a hotel room...before they were married.
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* NoodleIncident: The Albany story. Hildy kicks Walter in the shin because he almost reveals that the two of them had been sharing a hotel room... before they were married.
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* QuittingToGetMarried: The film starts with Hildy telling her ex-husband that once she marries her current fiance she's giving up her job with the paper to be a wife and mother. It's a ScrewballComedy and the ex is played by Creator/CaryGrant, so of course it doesn't work out that way.
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Because the film is in the PublicDomain, it can be viewed in its entirety [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/63243/his-girl-friday here.]]
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Because the film is in the PublicDomain, it can be viewed in its entirety [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/63243/his-girl-friday [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kpXX501COc here.]]
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* HotScoop: Walter and Hildy.
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''His Girl Friday'' is a 1940 ScrewballComedy from Creator/ColumbiaPictures starring Creator/CaryGrant, Creator/RosalindRussell, and Ralph Bellamy, adapted from the play ''The Front Page'' by Ben Hecht and Charles [=MacArthur=], and directed by Creator/HowardHawks. It's now in the PublicDomain.
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''His Girl Friday'' is a 1940 ScrewballComedy from Creator/ColumbiaPictures starring Creator/CaryGrant, Creator/RosalindRussell, and Ralph Bellamy, Creator/RalphBellamy, adapted from the play ''The Front Page'' by Ben Hecht and Charles [=MacArthur=], and directed by Creator/HowardHawks. It's now in the PublicDomain.
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This film is noted for its rapid-fire dialogue, and it was #19 on ''American Film Institute's 100 Years -- 100 Laughs'' and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Today the film is in the public domain (even though the 1928 play it is based on is still under copyright), which hasn't prevented Columbia Pictures from issuing official video releases of the film.
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This film is noted for its rapid-fire dialogue, and it was #19 on ''American Film Institute's 100 Years -- 100 Laughs'' ''Creator/AmericanFilmInstitute's AFIS100Years100Laughs'' and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Today the film is in the public domain (even though the 1928 play it is based on is still under copyright), which hasn't prevented Columbia Pictures from issuing official video releases of the film.
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** A (mostly) non-comedic example would be Earl. He's a mentally ill man who is about to be hanged for killing a cop. Everyone in charge knows that he was mentally ill and didn't mean to, but they are doing it simply for the votes. And they have a last minute psychologist come in to examine him, but he mentions they woke him up in the middle of the night to do it. He manages to get a gun (through the sheriff's incompetence) and escape, but even amongst the heroes, he still doesn't have a great time, spending most of his time hiding in a desk. And he is eventually recaptured (though shortly after, the pardon arrives again, saving his life.)
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* BlackComedy: A mild example, but most of the characters are rather unsympathetic, and it's a screwball comedy focused around reporters reporting on (and the main ones trying to save) a mentally ill man about to be executed. And even a woman attempting suicide by jumping out of the window gets glossed over for the sake of comedy. And Walter is just a terrible person through and through.
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* BlackComedy: A mild example, but most of the characters are rather unsympathetic, and it's a screwball comedy focused around reporters reporting on (and the main ones trying to save) a mentally ill man about to be executed. And even a woman attempting suicide by jumping out of the window gets glossed over doesn't stop the comedy for the sake of comedy.very long. And Walter is just a terrible person through and through.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Sick of the newsmen trying to twist everything she says (and get Earl's location out of her too), Mollie Malloy jumps out of the window. One of the characters says that she is still moving, but that just seems to have been a throw away line so that a woman's suicide wasn't hanging over the rest of the film (which is still a comedy), Hildy still thinks she might be dead, and as far as the plot is concerned, she is as she never comes up again.
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* BlackComedy: A mild example, but most of the characters are rather unsympathetic, and it's a screwball comedy focused around reporters reporting on (and the main ones trying to save) a mentally ill man about to be executed. And even a woman attempting suicide by jumping out of the window gets glossed over for the sake of comedy. And Walter is just a terrible person through and through.
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* ButtMonkey: Poor poor Bruce. The fact that him getting arrested due to Walter's machinations becomes a running gag is proof enough that the story is not kind to him. And he never did get his life savings back.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Hildy is torn between two men ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic note her white and black striped outfit above]]): stable but milquetoast Bruce (Betty) and exciting but petulent Walter (Veronica). Too bad for Betty, this Veronica is CaryGrant.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Hildy is torn between two men ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic note her white and black striped outfit above]]): stable but milquetoast Bruce (Betty) and exciting but petulent Walter (Veronica). Too bad for Betty, this Veronica is CaryGrant.Creator/CaryGrant.
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''His Girl Friday'' is a 1940 ScrewballComedy from Creator/ColumbiaPictures starring Creator/CaryGrant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy, adapted from the play ''The Front Page'' by Ben Hecht and Charles [=MacArthur=], and directed by Creator/HowardHawks. It's now in the PublicDomain.
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''His Girl Friday'' is a 1940 ScrewballComedy from Creator/ColumbiaPictures starring Creator/CaryGrant, Rosalind Russell, Creator/RosalindRussell, and Ralph Bellamy, adapted from the play ''The Front Page'' by Ben Hecht and Charles [=MacArthur=], and directed by Creator/HowardHawks. It's now in the PublicDomain.
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''Film/TheFrontPage'' had earlier been filmed in 1931 (with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien), and was remade again by Creator/BillyWilder in 1974 (with JackLemmon and WalterMatthau) and as ''Switching Channels'' (with the setting updated to the TV-news era) in 1988.
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* TheDitz: Pettibone, the messenger from the Governor's office.
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* TheDitz: Joe Pettibone, the messenger from the Governor's office.
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* TooDumbToFool: The Mayor and Sheriff Hartwell might have succeeded in covering up Earl Williams's LastMinuteReprieve if Pettibone, the messenger from the Governor's office responsible for delivering the reprieve, weren't so incredibly dense.
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: In the midst of all the rapid-fire comedy, there is the scene in which Mollie Malloy calls out a full of newspapermen for spinning and sensationalizing Earl Williams' story just to sell papers and cracking jokes about him while he's awaiting execution. Later, with all the news hounds clamoring at her to talk to them, she leaps out of a window rather than say anything else that they could twist into a juicy fake story.
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: In the midst of all the rapid-fire comedy, there is the scene in which Mollie Malloy calls out a full of newspapermen for spinning and sensationalizing Earl Williams' story just to sell papers and cracking jokes about him while he's awaiting execution. Later, with all the news hounds clamoring at her to talk to them, she leaps out of a window rather than say anything else that they could twist into a juicy fake story.more BlatantLies.
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Well, more like Comedy Film Quiet Drama Scene. Earl Williams' "girlfriend" pleading with the newspapermen to tell the truth and help him is heart-wrenching, as is her later jumping out of a window.
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Well, more like Comedy Film Quiet Drama Scene. In the midst of all the rapid-fire comedy, there is the scene in which Mollie Malloy calls out a full of newspapermen for spinning and sensationalizing Earl Williams' "girlfriend" pleading story just to sell papers and cracking jokes about him while he's awaiting execution. Later, with all the newspapermen to tell the truth and help him is heart-wrenching, as is news hounds clamoring at her later jumping to talk to them, she leaps out of a window.window rather than say anything else that they could twist into a juicy fake story.
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''His Girl Friday'' (1940) is a ScrewballComedy from Creator/ColumbiaPictures starring Creator/CaryGrant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy, adapted from the play ''The Front Page'' by Ben Hecht and Charles [=MacArthur=], and directed by Creator/HowardHawks. Now in the PublicDomain.
''His Girl Friday'' (1940) is a ScrewballComedy from Creator/ColumbiaPictures starring Creator/CaryGrant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy, adapted from the play ''The Front Page'' by Ben Hecht and Charles [=MacArthur=], and directed by Creator/HowardHawks. Now in the PublicDomain.
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''His Girl Friday''
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Well, more like Comedy Film Quiet Drama Scene. Earl William's "girlfriend" pleading with the newspapermen to tell the truth and help him is heart-wrenching, as is her later jumping out of a window.
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Well, more like Comedy Film Quiet Drama Scene. Earl William's Williams' "girlfriend" pleading with the newspapermen to tell the truth and help him is heart-wrenching, as is her later jumping out of a window.
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* ClearMyName: The "girlfriend" of Earl William's desperately pleads with the room of newspapermen to get their story straight-- that she had helped him one time out of pity and had no relationship, that he was innocent-- to their bigoted and utter indifference. Once she leaves the room everyone present is visibly shown to have been affecting said indifference. All the more tragic because she later jumps out a window in despair (thankfully not dying) and the event is covered with just as much vulturelike zeal by the newspaper men.
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* ClearMyName: The "girlfriend" of Earl William's Williams desperately pleads with the room of newspapermen to get their story straight-- that she had helped him one time out of pity and had no relationship, that he was innocent-- to their bigoted and utter indifference. Once she leaves the room everyone present is visibly shown to have been affecting said indifference. All the more tragic because she later jumps out a window in despair (thankfully not dying) and the event is covered with just as much vulturelike zeal by the newspaper men.
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* GetOut: Burns delivers this line at one point, as only Cary Grant could do it.
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* DaChief: Burns in the original play was perhaps a TropeMaker, his performance by Cary Grant is a TropeCodifier. Many journalists and editors admitted that they all wanted to be Walter Burns.
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* DaChief: Burns in the original play was perhaps a TropeMaker, his performance by Cary Grant is a TropeCodifier. Many journalists and editors admitted that they all wanted to be Walter Burns.
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Jerk with the heart of a jerk
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* JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk: Walter Burns lies and manipulates everyone around him including runining his ex-wife's honeymoon with her new fiancee and having them thrown in jail all for the sake of a story. Towards the end he starts to reveal a nobler side only for it to be more manipulations to keep his wife and get another story.
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* CelebrityParadox: Ralph is described as resembling the actor who plays him.
* CelebrityResemblance: Walter, describing Bruce: "He looks like, uh, that guy from the movies, you know... Ralph Bellamy.".
* CelebrityResemblance: Walter, describing Bruce: "He looks like, uh, that guy from the movies, you know... Ralph Bellamy.".
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* CelebrityParadox: Bruce, played by Ralph Bellamy, is described as resembling the actor who plays him.
* CelebrityResemblance: Walter, describing Bruce: "He looks like, uh, that guy from the movies, you know...Ralph Bellamy.".
* CelebrityResemblance: Walter, describing Bruce: "He looks like, uh, that guy from the movies, you know...
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The trope Hot Scoop refers to a hot reporter, implying that Walter cheated on Hildy instead of neglecting her for work.
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* AllForNothing: The reason Hildy wanted to divorce Walter in the first place is he's MarriedToTheJob and ignored her in favor of getting the HotScoop (even canceling their honeymoon to cover a mine accident). The movie ends with them deciding to stay married and have a second honeymoon-- which Walter asks to make in Albany to cover a big union strike. You can practically see the disappointment in Hildy's face.
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* AllForNothing: The reason Hildy wanted to divorce Walter in the first place is he's MarriedToTheJob and ignored her in favor of getting the HotScoop scoop (even canceling their honeymoon to cover a mine accident). The movie ends with them deciding to stay married and have a second honeymoon-- which Walter asks to make in Albany to cover a big union strike. You can practically see the disappointment in Hildy's face.
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* ExactWords: Hildy promised to interview Earl Williams and write a story about it. She didn't say anything about not tearing up the story.
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''The Front Page'' had earlier been filmed in 1931 (with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien), and was [[Film/TheFrontPage remade again]] by Creator/BillyWilder in 1974 (with JackLemmon and WalterMatthau) and as ''Switching Channels'' (with the setting updated to the TV-news era) in 1988.
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** Hollywood professionals familiar with how these things work have said that by all rights, the length of the script means the movie should have been ''twice'' as long as it is.[[note]]A film critic once compared the speed of the dialogue in this film to the speed of the dialogue in Lewis Milestone's 1931 ''The Front Page'', an earlier movie based on the same play. The characters in ''The Front Page'' actually talk ''faster'' than the characters in ''His Girl Friday'', but ''His Girl Friday'' ''feels'' faster because in ''His Girl Friday'' they constantly talk over each other, whereas in ''The Front Page'' they never do.[[/note]]
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** Hollywood professionals familiar with how these things work have said that by all rights, the length of the script means the movie should have been ''twice'' as long as it is.[[note]]A film critic once compared worked out why this is so by comparing the speed of the dialogue in this film to the speed of the dialogue in Lewis Milestone's 1931 ''The Front Page'', an earlier movie based on the same play. The In terms of words-per-minute, the characters in ''The Front Page'' actually talk ''faster'' than the characters in ''His Girl Friday'', but ''His Girl Friday'' ''feels'' faster because in ''His Girl Friday'' they constantly talk over each other, whereas in ''The Front Page'' they never do.[[/note]]
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** Hollywood professionals familiar with how these things work have said that by all rights, the length of the script means the movie should have been ''twice'' as long as it is.[[note]]A film critic once compared the speed of the dialogue in this film to the speed of the dialogue in Lewis Milestone's 1931 ''The Front Page'', an earlier movie based on the same play. The characters in ''The Front Page'' actually talk 'faster'' than the characters in ''His Girl Friday'', but ''His Girl Friday'' ''feels'' faster because in ''His Girl Friday'' they constantly talk over each other, whereas in ''The Front Page'' they never do.[[/note]]
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** Hollywood professionals familiar with how these things work have said that by all rights, the length of the script means the movie should have been ''twice'' as long as it is.[[note]]A film critic once compared the speed of the dialogue in this film to the speed of the dialogue in Lewis Milestone's 1931 ''The Front Page'', an earlier movie based on the same play. The characters in ''The Front Page'' actually talk 'faster'' ''faster'' than the characters in ''His Girl Friday'', but ''His Girl Friday'' ''feels'' faster because in ''His Girl Friday'' they constantly talk over each other, whereas in ''The Front Page'' they never do.[[/note]]
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** Hollywood professionals familiar with how these things work have said that by all rights, the length of the script means the movie should have been ''twice'' as long as it is.
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** Hollywood professionals familiar with how these things work have said that by all rights, the length of the script means the movie should have been ''twice'' as long as it is.[[note]]A film critic once compared the speed of the dialogue in this film to the speed of the dialogue in Lewis Milestone's 1931 ''The Front Page'', an earlier movie based on the same play. The characters in ''The Front Page'' actually talk 'faster'' than the characters in ''His Girl Friday'', but ''His Girl Friday'' ''feels'' faster because in ''His Girl Friday'' they constantly talk over each other, whereas in ''The Front Page'' they never do.[[/note]]
