His girl Friday
(DVD) 

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[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2017].
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Published
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2017].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English

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Title from container.
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Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
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Full screen (1.33:1).
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Special features: New interview with film scholar David Brodwell; archival interviews with director Howard Hawks; featurettes from 1999 and 2006 about Hawks, Rosalind Russell, and the making of; radio adaptation from 1940; His Girl Friday trailers; booklet.
Participants/Performers
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart.
Description
Hildy Johnson is a reporter. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic 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 that₂s supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife.
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DVD, region 1, NTSC, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby digital mono.
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Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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DVD

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hawks, H., Hecht, B., Grant, C., Russell, R., Bellamy, R., & Hecht, B. (2017). His girl Friday (DVD edition.). The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Howard Hawks et al.. 2017. His Girl Friday. The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Howard Hawks et al.. His Girl Friday The Criterion Collection, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hawks, Howard, et al. His Girl Friday DVD edition., The Criterion Collection, 2017.

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