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* NiceHat: Hildy ''loves'' them. Special mention has to go to the one she wears in the page image.
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* ActorAllusion: Burns briefly mentions a man he tangled with sometime in the past named Archie Leach; that’s Cary Grant’s birth name.
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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 more BlatantLies.
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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 room 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 [[DrivenToSuicide leaps out of a window window]] rather than say anything else that they could twist into more BlatantLies.
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* HighPoweredCareerWoman: Hildy Johnson might be the UrExample. She is a woman with a successful career in a male-dominated field, journalism. When working she wears a jacket and hat very similar to her male colleagues. She is highly respected by her male coworkers, all of whom treat her as OneOfTheBoys. She is involved in a LoveTriangle between her fiance, who wants her to be a feminine wife, and her ex-husband, who is her editor and wants her to continue working with him.
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* BeQuietNudge: Hildy Johnson keeps kicking Walter Burns under the table as he tells increasingly risque stories to rattler her dull new fiancé, Bruce Baldwin (who doesn't notice). She ends up kicking the waiter.
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* BeQuietNudge: Hildy Johnson keeps kicking Walter Burns under the table as he tells increasingly risque stories to rattler rattle her dull new fiancé, Bruce Baldwin (who doesn't notice). She ends up kicking the waiter.
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Because the film is in the PublicDomain, it can be viewed in its entirety [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kpXX501COc here.]]
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Because the film is in the PublicDomain, it can be viewed in its entirety [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kpXX501COc com/watch?v=kmYcT5gT6a4 here.]]
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* RuleOfSymbolism:
** Hildy's clothes are a notable figure within the film, especially since the film was released in 1940. When we first see Hildy in Walter's office, she's wearing a striking striped dress and hat — very stylish, very chic, and very feminine. And she herself says she's feminine; she's there with her fiancé Bruce, who in her words, "treats [her] like a woman." Her clothes show who she wants to be: a wife and a mother, with a family and a man to take care of her. When she decides to write the story for Walter, though, she changes her clothes. Inside of feminine attire, she puts on a plain striped jacket (which looks a lot like the male reporter's jackets) and a utilitarian hat (which one of the reporters teases her about). Hildy's changed from feminine, stereotypically womanly clothes to more masculine, utilitarian work clothes, symbolizing her return to the work world.
** Creator/RalphBellamy is the actor who plays Bruce Baldwin. But he's also an inside joke. When Louie asks Walter what Bruce looks like, he responds with, "that guy in the movies, Ralph Bellamy". The joke isn't just that Bruce ''is'' Ralph Bellamy. It's that he is the kind of guy Ralph Bellamy would play. Bellamy played a similar role to Bruce in the film ''The Awful Truth'' — which Cary Grant also starred in. Just as in ''His Girl Friday'', Grant's character divorced his wife, who then took up with a Midwestern innocent played by Bellamy.
** Prior to the events of the film, Walter hired a skywriter to write in the clouds, "Hildy. Don't be hasty. Remember my dimple. Walter." when he and Hildy were with a judge to be divorced, who delayed the divorce 20 minutes to read it. The large, flamboyant, egotistical message is a good summary of how Walter interacts with Hildy throughout the film. He uses language not so much to ''communicate'' with her as to ''delay'' her. And he loves using technology to misdirect and to say things he can't get away with otherwise. For instance, Walter yells at reporter Butch's fiancée for keeping him away from the paper, and even tells Hildy they're getting remarried on the phone, but not even on a phone call to Hildy herself. He's talking to Duffy, the copy editor, and casually mentions the upcoming nuptials.
** Early on in the film, as Hildy and Walter are walking through the newsroom, Walter would go through a door and let it slam back onto Hildy. Hildy would then reprimand him for not being chivalrous. They come to a second gate, and Hildy illustrates the right way to hold it open, letting Walter walk through. They then come to a third gate… and Walter again goes through first and lets it slam on Hildy. Aside from deliberately mistreating Hildy, Walter was being canny. His whole pitch to Hildy, his effort to win her back, is based on his argument that her second most important identity is as a woman. Her first identity was as a journalist. Walter's appeal is to Hildy's professional ambition. He's in love with Hildy as a journalist, not as a potential housewife. By slamming doors on her, he's treating her like another one of his employees. But she's cool with it as Walter's letting her know it's more fun to joke with him than it is to be put on a pedestal by Bruce.
** Hildy's clothes are a notable figure within the film, especially since the film was released in 1940. When we first see Hildy in Walter's office, she's wearing a striking striped dress and hat — very stylish, very chic, and very feminine. And she herself says she's feminine; she's there with her fiancé Bruce, who in her words, "treats [her] like a woman." Her clothes show who she wants to be: a wife and a mother, with a family and a man to take care of her. When she decides to write the story for Walter, though, she changes her clothes. Inside of feminine attire, she puts on a plain striped jacket (which looks a lot like the male reporter's jackets) and a utilitarian hat (which one of the reporters teases her about). Hildy's changed from feminine, stereotypically womanly clothes to more masculine, utilitarian work clothes, symbolizing her return to the work world.
** Creator/RalphBellamy is the actor who plays Bruce Baldwin. But he's also an inside joke. When Louie asks Walter what Bruce looks like, he responds with, "that guy in the movies, Ralph Bellamy". The joke isn't just that Bruce ''is'' Ralph Bellamy. It's that he is the kind of guy Ralph Bellamy would play. Bellamy played a similar role to Bruce in the film ''The Awful Truth'' — which Cary Grant also starred in. Just as in ''His Girl Friday'', Grant's character divorced his wife, who then took up with a Midwestern innocent played by Bellamy.
** Prior to the events of the film, Walter hired a skywriter to write in the clouds, "Hildy. Don't be hasty. Remember my dimple. Walter." when he and Hildy were with a judge to be divorced, who delayed the divorce 20 minutes to read it. The large, flamboyant, egotistical message is a good summary of how Walter interacts with Hildy throughout the film. He uses language not so much to ''communicate'' with her as to ''delay'' her. And he loves using technology to misdirect and to say things he can't get away with otherwise. For instance, Walter yells at reporter Butch's fiancée for keeping him away from the paper, and even tells Hildy they're getting remarried on the phone, but not even on a phone call to Hildy herself. He's talking to Duffy, the copy editor, and casually mentions the upcoming nuptials.
** Early on in the film, as Hildy and Walter are walking through the newsroom, Walter would go through a door and let it slam back onto Hildy. Hildy would then reprimand him for not being chivalrous. They come to a second gate, and Hildy illustrates the right way to hold it open, letting Walter walk through. They then come to a third gate… and Walter again goes through first and lets it slam on Hildy. Aside from deliberately mistreating Hildy, Walter was being canny. His whole pitch to Hildy, his effort to win her back, is based on his argument that her second most important identity is as a woman. Her first identity was as a journalist. Walter's appeal is to Hildy's professional ambition. He's in love with Hildy as a journalist, not as a potential housewife. By slamming doors on her, he's treating her like another one of his employees. But she's cool with it as Walter's letting her know it's more fun to joke with him than it is to be put on a pedestal by Bruce.
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This film is noted for its sharp, rapid-fire dialogue, and it was #19 on ''Creator/AmericanFilmInstitute's AFIS100Years100Laughs'' and has been selected for preservation in the United States UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry. 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. Creator/TheCriterionCollection has also issued it on both DVD and Blu-ray.
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This film is noted for its sharp, rapid-fire dialogue, and it was #19 on ''Creator/AmericanFilmInstitute's AFIS100Years100Laughs'' AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs'' and has been selected for preservation in the United States UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry. 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. Creator/TheCriterionCollection has also issued it on both DVD and Blu-ray.
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* GenderFlip: This movie is a gender-flipped version of the original play, turning Hildy Johnson into a woman and making it a romantic comedy.
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* GenderFlip: This movie is a gender-flipped version of the original play, turning Hildy Johnson into was a woman man in the original play. During auditions, Creator/HowardHawks' secretary read reporter his lines and making it Hawks liked the way the dialogue sounded coming from a romantic comedy.woman, resulting in the script being rewritten to make Hildy female and the ex-wife of Walter Burns.
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''His Girl Friday'' is a 1939 ScrewballComedy from Creator/ColumbiaPictures starring Creator/CaryGrant, Creator/RosalindRussell, and 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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''His Girl Friday'' is a 1939 1940 ScrewballComedy from Creator/ColumbiaPictures starring Creator/CaryGrant, Creator/RosalindRussell, and 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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* PantyShot: A brief one, when Hildy hikes up her skirt to chase after Cooley.
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* AdaptationTitleChange: ''His Girl Friday'' was adapted from ''The Front Page''.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The dialogue moves so fast, Russell and Grant managed to slip in a few choice innuendos. For one, Walter greets Bruce by grabbing and shaking his umbrella. When he realizes what he's grabbing he quickly lets go with a snide "Oh, that's ''wrong'', isn't it?" Hildy gets a good jab at Walter too when he says of his body "Hey, I'm better than I ever was." Hildy doesn't miss a {{Beat}} and shoots back "Was never anything to brag about."
** Over the phone: "He shot him right in the classified ads!... No, ''ads''."
** The dialogue moves so fast, Russell and Grant managed to slip in a few choice innuendos. For one, Walter greets Bruce by grabbing and shaking his umbrella. When he realizes what he's grabbing he quickly lets go with a snide "Oh, that's ''wrong'', isn't it?" Hildy gets a good jab at Walter too when he says of his body "Hey, I'm better than I ever was." Hildy doesn't miss a {{Beat}} and shoots back "Was never anything to brag about."
** Over the phone: "He shot him right in the classified ads!... No, ''ads''."
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** The dialogue moves so fast, RussellGettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and Grant managed to slip in a few choice innuendos. For one, Walter greets Bruce by grabbing and shaking his umbrella. When he realizes what he's grabbing he quickly lets go with a snide "Oh, that's ''wrong'', isn't it?" Hildy gets a good jab at Walter too when he says of his body "Hey, I'm better than I ever was." Hildy doesn't miss a {{Beat}} and shoots back "Was never anything to brag about."
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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 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.''
* JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk: Walter Burns lies and manipulates everyone around him including ruining 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.
* JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk: Walter Burns lies and manipulates everyone around him including ruining 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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* IntrepidReporter: Hildy. Also deconstructed — she, Burns and all the other reporters that appear throughout the film are nothing but a bunch of nearly inhuman [[ImmoralJournalist manipulative, lying, petty and unfeeling bastards and bastards.]] They have little to no concern in if what they write and publish either destroying destroys or saving saves other people's lives with the stuff lives, as long as it sells papers, and they spin and jump on anything that looks like an exclusive "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 ''destroys'' an article that would have saved Williams earlier in the film just to thumb her nose at Walter.''
* JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk: Walter Burns lies and manipulates everyone aroundhim including him, in the process ruining his ex-wife's planned wedding and honeymoon with her new fiancee 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.
* JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk: Walter Burns lies and manipulates everyone around
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Bruce disappears from the movie in the third act after becoming fed up with Walter's constant swindling tossing him in jail and overall humiliating him, and begs Hildy to come with him so they can just take the train to Albany and leave. Hildy, unfortunately, is too caught up in the Williams story to care and Bruce tells her that he will go to the station before getting out of the office. He comes up as one of the final gags, calling Hildy from the police precinct after being arrested for trying to purchase the train ticket with fake money.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Bruce disappears from the movie in the third act after becoming fed up with Walter's constant swindling tossing him swindling, getting Bruce tossed in jail (three times) and overall humiliating him, and him. He begs Hildy to come with him so they can just take the train to Albany and leave. Hildy, unfortunately, is too caught up in the Williams story to care and Bruce tells her that he will go to the station before getting out of the office. He comes up as one of the final gags, calling Hildy from the police precinct after being arrested for trying to purchase the train ticket with fake money.
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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 re-marry and have a second honeymoon -- — which Walter asks to make include a stop in Albany to cover a big union strike. You can practically see the disappointment in Hildy's face.
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* BlatantLies: Told by the pressmen as they give wildly divergent versions of Earl Williams' capture -- ''an event they are currently watching'' -- to their editors as they narrate over the phone. At least one or two say that Williams is resisting when he's actually being manhandled and he's screaming for mercy. There's also their insistence on labeling Mollie Malloy as Williams' moll even as Malloy is standing in the same room, in tears, insisting that all she ever did was give Williams some help, once, and out of pity.
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* BlatantLies: Told by the pressmen as they give wildly divergent versions of Earl Williams' capture -- — ''an event they are currently watching'' -- — to their editors as they narrate over the phone. At least one or two say that Williams is resisting when he's actually being manhandled and he's screaming for mercy. There's also their insistence on labeling Mollie Malloy as Williams' moll even as Malloy is standing in the same room, in tears, insisting that all she ever did was give Williams some help, once, and out of pity.
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* ClearMyName: The "girlfriend" of Earl 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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* ClearMyName: The "girlfriend" of Earl 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 vulture-like zeal by the newspaper men.
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* TheDitz: Joe Pettibone, the messenger from the Governor's office. Turns out to be TooDumbToFool, thankfully for our heroes -- arriving at an improper time for the antagonists because he's too stupid to get a clue that he's unwelcome saves Mr. Williams' life.
* DivorceInReno: Hildy mentions going to Reno to get her divorce.
* DivorceIsTemporary: Her decision to leave Walter because he's an unrelenting jerk obsessed with getting exclusives at any cost. After a whole movie of indecision, Hildy gets a DownerEnding -- Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change, and she dumped a good man for nothing.
* DivorceInReno: Hildy mentions going to Reno to get her divorce.
* DivorceIsTemporary: Her decision to leave Walter because he's an unrelenting jerk obsessed with getting exclusives at any cost. After a whole movie of indecision, Hildy gets a DownerEnding -- Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change, and she dumped a good man for nothing.
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* TheDitz: Joe Pettibone, the messenger from the Governor's office. Turns out to be TooDumbToFool, thankfully for our heroes -- — arriving at an improper time for the antagonists because he's too stupid to get a clue that he's unwelcome saves Mr. Williams' life.
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* DivorceIsTemporary: Her decision to leave Walter because he's an unrelenting jerk obsessed with getting exclusives at any cost. After a whole movie of indecision, Hildy gets a DownerEnding-- — Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change, and she dumped a good man for nothing.
* DivorceInReno: Hildy mentions going to Reno (by implication, to get her
* DivorceIsTemporary: Her decision to leave Walter because he's an unrelenting jerk obsessed with getting exclusives at any cost. After a whole movie of indecision, Hildy gets a DownerEnding
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* HoneyTrap: Diamond Louie has a "very blonde" female friend who gets Bruce into a compromising situation for arrest number 2.
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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 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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* 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 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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* OneOfTheBoys: Hildy. Most of her conflict between lifestyles is even phrased with genders -- news''man'' vs. house''woman''.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Bruce disappears from the movie in the third act after becoming fed up with Walter's constant swindling tossing him in jail and overall humiliating him, and begs Hildy to come with him so they can just take the train to Albany and leave. Hilda, unfortunately, is too caught up in the Williams story to care and Bruce tells her that he will go to the station before getting out of the office. He comes up as one of the final gags, calling Hildy from the police precinct after being arrested for trying to purchase the train ticket with fake money.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Bruce disappears from the movie in the third act after becoming fed up with Walter's constant swindling tossing him in jail and overall humiliating him, and begs Hildy to come with him so they can just take the train to Albany and leave. Hilda, Hildy, unfortunately, is too caught up in the Williams story to care and Bruce tells her that he will go to the station before getting out of the office. He comes up as one of the final gags, calling Hildy from the police precinct after being arrested for trying to purchase the train ticket with fake money.
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* BittersweetEnding: A sweet ending that turns bitter. Hildy and Walter save Williams from being executed and get back together, with Walter promising to give Hildy the honeymoon at Niagra Falls that he was originally going to give her when they first got married. On their way out of the office though, Walter is told about a workers' strike in Albany that he then plans to make a detour to from the honeymoon, and from the expression on her face, we see that Hildy realizes she just left a perfectly good man for one who will always put work first before her. It's [[BlackComedy played for comedy]].
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* VillainProtagonist: [[BlackAndGreyMorality He isn't as bad as the mayor and sheriff]], who would see an innocent man executed to give themselves good publicity on election year, but Walter is a very manipulative and self-centered man. He ruins his ex-wife's relationship with her new fiance because he doesn't want to lose her as a worker (and is jealous that she's trying to get with someone else). He only really cares about his work, and even though he woos Hildy back to him, at the end of the story he sidetracks their honeymoon for a second time to catch a big news scoop. The disappointment on Hildy's face says everything.
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* ComedyOfRemarriage: Her decision to leave Walter because he's an unrelenting jerk obsessed with getting exclusives at any cost. After a whole movie of indecision, Hildy gets a DownerEnding -- Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change, and she dumped a good man for nothing.
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* DivorceIsTemporary: Her decision to leave Walter because he's an unrelenting jerk obsessed with getting exclusives at any cost. After a whole movie of indecision, Hildy gets a DownerEnding -- Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change, and she dumped a good man for nothing.
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* OneOfTheBoys: Hilda. Most of her conflict between lifestyles is even phrased with genders -- news''man'' vs. house''woman''.
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* OneOfTheBoys: Hilda.Hildy. Most of her conflict between lifestyles is even phrased with genders -- news''man'' vs. house''woman''.
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Hildy's there, but it's not aimed at her
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* GetOut: Burns delivers this line at one point to Hildy, as only Cary Grant could do it.
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* GetOut: Burns delivers this line at one point to Hildy, Hartwell, as only Cary Grant could do it.
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* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Walter does this after overhearing Hildy and Bruce talking over the phone (Bruce has been arrested for having fake money (that Walter handed to him) and is using his OnePhoneCall to talk to her).
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Bruce disappears from the movie in the third act after becoming fed up with Walter's constant swindling tossing him in jail and overall humiliating him, and begs Hildy to come with him so they can just take the train to Albany and leave. Hilda, unfortunately, is too caught up in the Williams story to care and Bruce tells her that he will go to the station before getting out of the office. He comes up as one of the final gags, calling Hildy from the police precinct after being arrested for trying to purchase the train ticket with fake money.
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* ComedyOfRemarriage: Her decision to leave Walter because he's an unrelenting jerk obsessed with getting exclusives at any cost. After a whole movie of indecision, Hildy gets a DownerEnding -- Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change.
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* ComedyOfRemarriage: Her decision to leave Walter because he's an unrelenting jerk obsessed with getting exclusives at any cost. After a whole movie of indecision, Hildy gets a DownerEnding -- Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change.change, and she dumped a good man for nothing.
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* GirlFriday: Hildy is the titular woman. Co-TropeNamer, with ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'', by WordOfGod (it's kind of complicated, though...)
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* GirlFriday: Hildy is the titular woman. Co-TropeNamer, with ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'', by WordOfGod (it's kind of complicated, though...) it's a comparison between Friday that is Crusoe's sidekick being good luck, or so the director said).
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* BlatantLies: Told by the pressmen as they give wildly divergent versions of Earl Williams' capture -- ''an event they are currently watching'' -- to their editors as they narrate over the phone. At least one or two say that Williams is resisting when he's actually being manhandled and he's screaming for mercy.
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* BlatantLies: Told by the pressmen as they give wildly divergent versions of Earl Williams' capture -- ''an event they are currently watching'' -- to their editors as they narrate over the phone. At least one or two say that Williams is resisting when he's actually being manhandled and he's screaming for mercy. There's also their insistence on labeling Mollie Malloy as Williams' moll even as Malloy is standing in the same room, in tears, insisting that all she ever did was give Williams some help, once, and out of pity.
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sheesh, what's will all the ZC Es? Not all of them have zero context.
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%%* TheChewToy: Bruce and Earl Williams.
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%%* ComedicSociopathy: Walter is mean to poor Bruce.
%%* ComedyOfRemarriage: With a DownerEnding for Hildy -- Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change.
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%%* TheDitz: Joe Pettibone, the messenger from the Governor's office.
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%%* DaEditor: 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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%%* GetOut: Burns delivers this line at one point, as only Cary Grant could do it.
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%%* GirlFriday: Hildy. Co-TropeNamer, with ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe''
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%%* InsanityDefense: How Hildy intends to save Earl Williams.
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%%** Hildy can talk pretty fast herself when worked up.
%%** Walter, when he has a good line going.
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** Walter, when he has a good line
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%%* OneOfTheBoys: Hildy.
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%%* RomanticRunnerUp: Ralph Bellamy.
%%* SleazyPolitician: The Mayor and Sheriff Peter B. "Pinky" Hartwell.
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* SleazyPolitician: The Mayor and Sheriff Peter B. "Pinky"
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Zero Context Example (also, this trope belongs under E because articles are ignored in alphabetization, even if they're either informal (like in Da Chief) or in another language (like in El Nino Is Spanish For The Nino)).
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* DaEditor: 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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Fixing a spellcheck error I overlooked in my previous edit
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* JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk: Walter Burns lies and manipulates everyone around him including running 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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* JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk: Walter Burns lies and manipulates everyone around him including running ruining 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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Commented out Zero Context Examples, fixed Example Indentation, and removed YMMV and Trivia tropes, problems listed on How To Write An Example (such as an example using two tropes separated by a slash (removed that one because it also violated Examples Are Not Arguable) or examples referring to other examples).
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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 Creator/CaryGrant.
* BlatantLies: Told by the pressmen as they give wildly divergent versions of Earl Williams' capture -- ''an event they are currently watching'' -- to their editors.
* BlatantLies: Told by the pressmen as they give wildly divergent versions of Earl Williams' capture -- ''an event they are currently watching'' -- to their editors.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Hildy is torn between two men ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic note her white and black striped outfit above]]): stable men: Stable but milquetoast Bruce (Betty) and exciting but petulent petulant Walter (Veronica). Too bad for Betty, this Veronica is Creator/CaryGrant.
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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.
** 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.)
* CareerVersusMan: Hildy clearly thinks it's what's at stake. She can either give up her job to settle down with Bruce, or rejoin the exciting world of hotshot reporting. The gendered language of her explanation gives away the conflict in her mind: she can stay in New York and "be a newspaper '''man'''" or move to the countryside and "be a '''woman'''."
** 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.)
* CareerVersusMan: Hildy clearly thinks it's what's at stake. She can either give up her job to settle down with Bruce, or rejoin the exciting world of hotshot reporting. The gendered language of her explanation gives away the conflict in her mind: she can stay in New York and "be a newspaper '''man'''" or move to the countryside and "be a '''woman'''."
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* ButtMonkey: Poor poor Bruce. ButtMonkey:
** The fact thathim Bruce 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.
**A (mostly) non-comedic example would be Earl. He's Earl is 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.)
* CareerVersusMan: Hildyclearly thinks it's what's at stake. She can either give up her job to settle down with Bruce, or rejoin the exciting world of hotshot reporting. The gendered language of her explanation gives away the conflict in her mind: she can stay in New York and "be a newspaper '''man'''" or move to the countryside and "be a '''woman'''."
** The fact that
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* CareerVersusMan: Hildy
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* TheChewToy: Bruce and Earl Williams.
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* ComedicSociopathy: Walter is mean to poor Bruce.
* ComedyOfRemarriage: With a DownerEnding for Hildy -- Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change.
* ComedyOfRemarriage: With a DownerEnding for Hildy -- Walter is too much of a jerk to ever change.
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* DisposableFiance: Walter sets Bruce up for never-ending humiliation and Hildy abandons him because she likes being a reporter too much.
%%* TheDitz: Joe Pettibone, the messenger from the Governor's office.
* DivorceInReno: Hildy mentions going to Reno to get her divorce.
* 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.
%%* TheDitz: Joe Pettibone, the messenger from the Governor's office.
* DivorceInReno: Hildy mentions going to Reno to get her divorce.
* 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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* DisposableFiance: Bruce. Walter sets him up for never-ending humiliation and Hildy abandons him because she likes being a reporter too much.
* TheDitz: Joe Pettibone, the messenger from the Governor's office.
* DivorceInReno: Hildy mentions going to Reno to get her divorce.
* 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.
* TheDitz: Joe Pettibone, the messenger from the Governor's office.
* DivorceInReno: Hildy mentions going to Reno to get her divorce.
* 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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* GetOut: Burns delivers this line at one point, as only Cary Grant could do it.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The dialogue moves so fast, Russell and Grant managed to slip in a few choice innuendos. For one, Walter greets Bruce by grabbing and shaking his umbrella. When he realizes what he's grabbing he quickly lets go with a snide "Oh, that's ''wrong'', isn't it?" Hildy gets a good jab at Walter too when he says of his body "Hey, I'm better than I ever was." Hildy doesn't miss a {{Beat}} and shoots back "Was never anything to brag about."
** Also, over the phone: "He shot him right in the classified ads!... No, ''ads.''"
* GirlFriday: Hildy. Co-TropeNamer, with ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe''
* GrandeDame: Mrs. Baldwin is close to this type.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The dialogue moves so fast, Russell and Grant managed to slip in a few choice innuendos. For one, Walter greets Bruce by grabbing and shaking his umbrella. When he realizes what he's grabbing he quickly lets go with a snide "Oh, that's ''wrong'', isn't it?" Hildy gets a good jab at Walter too when he says of his body "Hey, I'm better than I ever was." Hildy doesn't miss a {{Beat}} and shoots back "Was never anything to brag about."
** Also, over the phone: "He shot him right in the classified ads!... No, ''ads.''"
* GirlFriday: Hildy. Co-TropeNamer, with ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe''
* GrandeDame: Mrs. Baldwin is close to this type.
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** The dialogue moves so fast, Russell and Grant managed to slip in a few choice innuendos. For one, Walter greets Bruce by grabbing and shaking his umbrella. When he realizes what he's grabbing he quickly lets go with a snide "Oh, that's ''wrong'', isn't it?" Hildy gets a good jab at Walter too when he says of his body "Hey, I'm better than I ever was." Hildy doesn't miss a {{Beat}} and shoots back "Was never anything to brag about."
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%%* GirlFriday: Hildy. Co-TropeNamer, with ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe''
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* InsanityDefense: How Hildy intends to save Earl Williams.
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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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* JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk: Walter Burns lies and manipulates everyone around him including runining running 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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* ManipulativeBastard / GuileHero: Where Walter falls on this spectrum depends on how you interpret his actions throughout the night. Hildy definitely has plenty of moments too. Throughout the film, Walter is trying to win Hildy back, Hildy is countering Walter's advances, and both of them are [[OutGambitted out-gambitting]] the Mayor and the Sheriff to save Earl Williams.
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* MotorMouth: Walter, when he has a good line going. Hildy punctuates the end of an especially rapid rant with "Sold to American!", parodying the then popular tagline openings for radio shows promoted by American Tobacco, makers of Lucky Strike Cigarettes. (The shows would open with an auctioneer doing a [[MotorMouth impossibly fast]] series of bids, ending with "Sold to American!")
** Hildy can talk pretty fast herself when worked up.
** Hildy can talk pretty fast herself when worked up.
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* MotorMouth: Walter, when he has a good line going. MotorMouth:
** Hildy punctuates the end of an especially rapid rant with "Sold to American!", parodying the then popular tagline openings for radio shows promoted by American Tobacco, makers of Lucky Strike Cigarettes. (The shows would open with an auctioneer doing a [[MotorMouth impossibly fast]] series of bids, ending with "Sold toAmerican!")
** Hildy can talk pretty fast herself when worked up.American!")
** Hildy punctuates the end of an especially rapid rant with "Sold to American!", parodying the then popular tagline openings for radio shows promoted by American Tobacco, makers of Lucky Strike Cigarettes. (The shows would open with an auctioneer doing a [[MotorMouth impossibly fast]] series of bids, ending with "Sold to
** Hildy can talk pretty fast herself when worked up.
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%%** Walter, when he has a good line going.
%%** Walter, when he has a good line going.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Ralph Bellamy, of course, as Bruce, who is pleasant and handsome and won't get the girl.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Ralph Bellamy. [[TypeCasting Surprise, surprise]].
* SleazyPolitician: The Mayor and Sheriff Peter B. "Pinky" Hartwell.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Ralph Bellamy. [[TypeCasting Surprise, surprise]].
* SleazyPolitician: The Mayor and Sheriff Peter B. "Pinky" Hartwell.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Ralph Bellamy, of course, Bellamy as Bruce, who is pleasant and handsome and won't get the girl.
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* WellExcuseMePrincess: See BST above.
