His girl Friday [DVD video]

Hildy Johnson is a reporter who is matched in force only by her conniving-but-charismatic ex-editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife.

General Note:

Title from disc label.

1.33:1 aspect ratio.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.

Based on the play The front page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, as produced by Jed Harris.

Full credits and essays on His girl Friday and The front page by Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow on folded container insert.

Special features: Bonus disc with new 4K restoration of Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931); New interview with film scholar David Bordwell; archival interviews with Howard Hawks; featurettes from 1999; radio adaptation from 1940; new piece about the restoration of The Front Page; new piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht; radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946; trailers.

Performers:

Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall.

Contents:

Disc 1. His girl Friday (92 min. ; 1940) -- Disc 2. The front page (101 min. ; 1931) / The Caddo Company ; directed by Lewis Milestone ; written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

Personal Subject:

Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964-Film adaptations.

MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956-Film adaptations.

Subject Term:

Journalists -- Drama.

Women journalists -- Drama.

Reporters and reporting -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Divorced people -- Drama.

Genre:

Romantic comedy films.

Screwball comedy films.