{"product_id":"0744365698563","title":"His Girl Friday","description":"The second screen version of the Ben Hecht\/Charles MacArthur play \u003ci\u003eThe Front Page\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHis Girl Friday\u003c\/i\u003e changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism for marriage to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Cary Grant plays Walter Burns, Hildy's editor and ex-husband, who feigns happiness about her impending marriage as a ploy to win her back. The ace up Walter's sleeve is a late-breaking news story concerning the impending execution of anarchist Earl Williams (John Qualen), a blatant example of political chicanery that Hildy can't pass up. The story gets hotter when Williams escapes and is hidden from the cops by Hildy and Walter--right in the prison pressroom. \u003ci\u003eHis Girl Friday\u003c\/i\u003e may well be the fastest comedy of the 1930s, with kaleidoscope action, instantaneous plot twists, and overlapping dialogue. And if you listen closely, you'll hear a couple of \"in\" jokes, one concerning Cary Grant's real name (Archie Leach), and another poking fun at Ralph Bellamy's patented \"poor sap\" screen image. Subsequent versions of \u003ci\u003eThe Front Page\u003c\/i\u003e included Billy Wilder's 1974 adaptation, which restored Hildy Johnson's manhood in the form of Jack Lemmon, and 1988's \u003ci\u003eSwitching Channels\u003c\/i\u003e, which cast Burt Reynolds in the Walter Burns role and Kathleen Turner as the Hildy Johnson counterpart.","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49989474353392,"sku":"0744365698563","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0744365698563","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}