from Columbia Pictures
Directed by
Howard
Hawks
Starring
Cary
Grant (Walter Burns)
Rosalind Russell (Hildy Johnson)
Ralph Bellamy (Bruce Baldwin)
Gene Lockhart (Sheriff Hartwell)
Porter Hall (Murphy)
Ernest Truex (Bensinger)
Cliff Edwards (Endicott)
Clarence Kolb (Mayor)
Roscoe Karns (McCue)
Frank Jenks (Wilson)
Regis Toomey (Sanders)
Abner Biberman (Louis)
Frank Orth (Duffy)
John Qualen (Earl Williams)
Helen Mack (Molly Malloy)
Alma Kruger (Mrs. Baldwin)
Billy Gilbert (Joe Pettibone)
Pat West (Warden Cooley)
Edwin Maxwell (Dr. Egelhoffer)
Written by
Ben Hecht (play The Front Page)
Charles MacArthur (play The Front Page)
Charles Lederer |
 This witty,
fast-paced romp, adapted from the stage play "The Front
Page" by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, is full of bawdy
double entendres and gender-bender innuendos. Star newspaper
reporter Hildy Johnson's (Rosalind Russell) just informed Walter
Burns (Cary Grant), her suave managing editor and new ex-husband
that she's leaving the paper and planning to remarry. Walter,
a handsome hard-boiled sophisticate, wouldn't dare show his true
feelings for Hildy. But somehow, he's got to try and prevent
her from resigning and remarrying. His plan: assign Hildy one
last front page headliner. If things go accordingly, he'll have
the story he needs and the woman he wants.
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