His Girl Friday

Written by Murphy
Published April 13, 2003

This movie was FAST! they didn't stop for a minute.

The girl reporter, what they would have called it then in the 40s, was romantisizing a regular housewife life. She had picked up some dumb cluck man and was going to settle down with him.

But she had to separate herself from the ex-husband/editor/boss that still seemed to think he was in her life.

Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant have so much chemistry, the dumb cluck has no credibility at all.

I love the heroine. She is in so much control. She is instantly in charge of every change in the situation, and works it all out to her favor.

A lot of classic movies irritate me, because the females are so beautiful and behave so impossibly. But this woman not only does things that I might do, she does them better than I would.

Murphy Horner is a long-time BlogCritic. Murphy’s first book The Parable of Miriam the Camel Driver draws from her experience in corporate America to examine the bigger questions about balancing career and creativity. Murphy Horner has been working as a conferencing technology professional for a decade. Her university alumni association has recognized her as a noted female executive. Currently she is working on a travel memoir and can be found facilitating a writing group in her town of Claremont, Ca.
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#1 — April 13, 2003 @ 17:51PM — Jim Carruthers [URL]

I think "The Front Page" (with Jack Lemmon) is one of the better adaptations of this story (it's been done a whole bunch of times). But the rattatat pace of "His Girl Friday" is great. And one of the foundations of auteur theory in American cinema.

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