His Girl Friday (1940)




Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell - His Girl Friday






Reporter Hildy Johnson is talked into taking on one more assignment by editor Walter Burns, her ex-husband, just before she is due to become the bride of Bruce Baldwin.


Books with substantial mentioning of His Girl Friday

John White and Sabine Haenni (eds.)
Fifty Key American Films
London and New York, 2009

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Marilyn Fabe
Closely watched films, An introduction to the art of narrative film technique
Berkeley, 2004

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Duane Byrge, Robert Milton Miller
The Screwball Comedy Films, A History and Filmography, 1934-1942
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Donald Deschner
The Films of Cary Grant
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Articles with substantial mentioning of His Girl Friday

Nick de Semlyen, The Top 10 Best Remakes, in: Empire, nr. 200 (February), 2006 pp. 68

Reviews

Laura Mulvey, His Girl Friday, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 3 (March), 1997 pp. 64

Helen O'Hara, His Girl Friday, The sassiest, fastest comedy ever made, in: Empire, nr. 239 (May), 2009 pp. 141 (DVD review)