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.
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1 - Jim Carruthers
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.