Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1940
Country: USA
Runtime: 92
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English, French
Director: Howard Hawks
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

She learned about men from him!

The Years Wildest, Wittiest Whirlwind of a Love Battle... Outrageously Racy... Sparkling... Gay!

Writing by: Charles Lederer - (screenplay)
Ben Hecht - (play "The Front Page") and
Charles MacArthur - (play "The Front Page")

Produced by: Howard Hawks - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildegaard Hildy Johnson
Ralph Bellamy - Bruce Baldwin
Gene Lockhart - Sheriff Peter B.Pinky Hartwell
Porter Hall - Murphy - Reporter
Ernest Truex - Roy V. Bensinger - Reporter
Cliff Edwards - Endicott - Reporter
Clarence Kolb - Mayor
Roscoe Karns - McCue - Reporter
Frank Jenks - Wilson - Reporter
Regis Toomey - Sanders - Reporter

Music: Sidney Cutner Felix Mills
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Plot Outline: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Plot: Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day after. Walter Burns cant let that happen and frames the other man, Bruce Baldwin, for a lot of stuff getting him into trouble all the time, while he tries to steer Hildy back into her old job as his employee (editor of his newspaper).

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
As the end credits roll scenes from the alternate version are shown.

Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Hildy wears black heels throughout the movie but when Earl Williams is hidden in the desk, she is pacing behind the table and is wearing white flats. The next time her feet are shown, she is wearing the black heels again.

Trivia: There are 19 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Walter Burns (Cary Grant) refers to some horrible fate suffered by the last person who crossed him: Archie Leach. Grants real name was Archibald Leach and he ad-libbed the line. See also Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
• When Earl Williams tries to get out of the roll-top desk, Burns (Cary Grant) says: "Get back in there, you Mock Turtle". Grant played the Mock Turtle in Alice in Wonderland (1933).
• Burns tries to describe Bruce Baldwin, played by Ralph Bellamy. He ends up saying that he "looks like that film actor, Ralph Bellamy". See also Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

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