Shoot—I just compared this to His Girl Friday. Jason X. Jason X 2001. Both films are love stories embedded in hard-boiled comedies about the newspaper business. A must see for 1930's film buffs and screwball comedy fanatics! But that wasn’t the first radio version. 1001 Movies I (Apparently) MUST See Before I Die, Sins of Omission - Entry #94: ZODIAC (2007), Classic Amiga Game Review: It Came from the Desert (1989), Who’ll turn out the lights (in your world tonight). "Switching Channels" is a re-make of 1931's "The Front Page" and 1940's "His Girl Friday". JoeMovies. With familiar radio voices Dick Powell, starring as reporter Hildy, and William Conrad, as a rather diminished editor Walter Burns, this was neither the original “stop-the-hanging and keep Hildy from quitting” plot nor the anything-goes Roaring Twenties setting. Adapted from the classic stage play The Front Page, the 1940 film His Girl Friday stands out as one of the most fun and well-written comedies. His Girl Friday & The Front Page Movies Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Director Howard Hawks brought romance into the picture with HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940, Nostalgia Family, unrated, $19.95), the first of three Front … Both movies have had a cherished spot on my shelf for years. The restoration of a newly rediscovered director’s cut of the 1931 The Front Page prompts this two-feature comedy disc — Lewis Milestone’s early talkie plus the sublime Howard Hawks remake, which plays a major gender switch on the main characters of Hecht & MacArthur’s original play. The Front Page — Academy Award Theater 1946, (Lee Tracy, who played Hildy on Broadway in 1928, also played the role in a 1951 radio version for “Philip Morris Playhouse,” possibly written by the same writing team as the 1948 Dick Powell series, David Friedkin and Morton Fine. Both the film “His Girl Friday” (1940) and the hit 1928 play and 1931 film that inspired it, “The Front Page,” were adapted for radio more than once. Book Vs Movie: His Girl Friday The 1928 Play (The Front Page) Vs the 1940 Howard Hawks Film. The play was restaged four more times on Broadway. He was also the father of actress Marian Seldes. In the end Hildy gets to solve a murder, but he’s still more Dick Powell, detective, than Hildy Johnson, reporter. I know all about reporters — a lot of daffy buttinskies going around without a nickel in their pockets, and for what? A few of the productions are available as MP3 files. The film was adapted from Ben Hecht’s hit play, The Front Page, with one drastic revision by Hawks: turning Hildy, a male colleague in the original, into a woman. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. “His Girl Friday” comes from the unmistakably Chicago-set 1928 legend of the stage, “The Front Page” by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. – is a constant presence and anchor to the real world. In The Front Page, Walter Howey becomes Walter Burns (played by Adolphe Menjou in the film), editor of the Examiner. 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The dialogue is rapid-fire — but possibly slowed down a bit for radio, which couldn’t rely on raised-eyebrows and double-takes to underscore punchlines. I've seen both versions and I like both equally. His Girl Friday (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) should really be listed as a double feature, for the “bonus” movie—a new edition of the original screen version of The Front Page, adapted from the snappy, cynical, double-barrel Broadway hit by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur—is not just a home video debut but a major discovery. brooklynfitchick.com/2020/12/what-a-creep-his-girl-friday-1940-the-front-page Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Of course, the most famous newpaper movie -- and the one that added sex to scoops -- was "His Girl Friday," the 1940 Howard Hawks remake of the Hecht-MacArthur classic about a … Are the radio adaptations still fun for new audiences, or do they mostly serve as reminders for people who already saw the play or films? Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. 2 comments. In all cases, the adaptations stay close to the basic outline: Hildy Johnson, reporter, wants to quit the business and get married. Archival interviews with His Girl Friday director Howard Hawks. http://www.archive.org/download/FordTheater/FT_48-05-09_ep32-Front_Page.mp3 It still holds up 70 some odd years later, but films just aren't made this way anymore. Also, sometimes I wonder how Walter Burns would have fared had the originally cast Louis Wolheim not passed so suddenly. Derek Steffen. Compare two of her most famous roles, Mrs. Howard Fowler in George Cukor’s The Women and Hildy Johnston in Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday. An example from the script of His Girl Friday: HILDY Fifteen years difference in ages didn’t mean much on radio. RU Course (Fall 2012): Journalists in Popular Culture, Adaptations: Radio Versions of Newspaper Films, Margaret Fuller, The Heart and the Fountain, I’ve written a bit about Hildy’s gender-change here, http://www.archive.org/download/ScreenGuildTheater/Sgt_41-03-30_ep080_His_Girl_Friday.mp3, https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles/Lux_Radio_Theatre_40-09-30_275_His_Girl_Friday.mp3, https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Academy_Award_Theater_Singles/Academy%20Award%2006-22-46%20%2813%29%20Front%20Page.mp3, http://www.archive.org/download/FordTheater/FT_48-05-09_ep32-Front_Page.mp3, https://otrrlibrary.org/OTRRLib/Library%20Files/F%20Series/Front%20Page/Front%20Page%201948.06.03%20The%20Frightened%20Swede.mp3. Her range as a spot-on comic performer is amazing. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. HIS GIRL FRIDAY/THE FRONT PAGE - #849. HIS GIRL FRIDAY/THE FRONT PAGE - #849 I love Rosalind Russell. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? ( Log Out / "The past isn't dead. Both the movies and the radio adaptations couldn’t be as naughty as Broadway, even cutting a famous “son-of-a-bitch” punchline as the final curtain came down. This is a good story, wonderfully told in both cases. I’ve written a bit about Hildy’s gender-change here and may add more discussion at a later date. Copies of the films are also available for streaming or downloading at archive.org: For more about the movies, including two more recent re-makes, see the Internet Movie Database, IMDB.com. Good newsroom-background sounds set the opening scene, not unlike the start of the movie “His Girl Friday,” but the similarity ends quickly. One of the most significant films of the early sound era. His Girl Friday / … The 1969–70 revival was the most successful of these. Compare two of her most famous roles, Mrs. Howard Fowler in George Cukor’s The Women and Hildy Johnston in Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday. Ford Theater’s 1948 production may have come closest to the 1928 Broadway original, thanks to the script treatment by the distinguished critic, editor and playwright Gilbert Seldes, the younger brother of journalist George Seldes and one of the first critics to take seriously “The Lively Arts” of popular culture. The Front Page gave audiences the definitive concept of the filmic newspaperman, and filmmakers the definitive concept of the sound film and its comedic potential. I think watching His Girl Friday first made it difficult to judge The Front Page on its own merits. A Tale of Two Johnsons: "The Front Page" and "His ... Neglected Post Theatre: A Tale of Two Falcons. MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE - Sarong, it's been good to know ya! I can't believe nobody's commented on this matchup before. Scripts for eleven episodes are listed among the papers of writer Morton Fine archived at UCLA, but transcription recordings of the series are rare. The plot of The Front Page is obviously the same as His Girl Friday, so I’ll skip the usual synopsis and get right to the nitty gritty, meaning this review will likely be quite short.. When news reporter, Christy Colleran (Turner), goes on a much needed vacation, she meets and becomes engaged to a sporting goods mogul (Reeve). Journalistic hijinks and … Well, sort of. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. A few of the productions are available as MP3 files. His Girl Friday, American screwball comedy film, released in 1940, that was director Howard Hawks ’s innovative remake of The Front Page (1931). As Michael Sragow notes in his essay, included with Criterion’s Blu-ray reissue of the film and its 1940 remake, His Girl Friday: [The Front Page] became famous, sometimes infamous, for its frankness about sleazy backroom politics and reckless, sensationalistic newspapers, and for its suggestive patter and profanity. ( Log Out / While in The Front Page Hildy’s female fiancée got very little to do besides appear near the end to encourage her man and his journalistic dreams, His Girl Friday‘s Bruce Baldwin – straight-arrow insurance man! In the background, there are a convicted man, a hangman’s scaffold, a courthouse newsroom full of cynical reporters, and an incompetent and corrupt sheriff and mayor. The film came out in January 1940; in September, Lux Radio Theater had it on the air with a different cast. The lightning-fast repartee and prickly courtship of the film’s two leads made it a classic in the genre. The Front Page (ABC) — Also in 1948, ABC radio tried out an updated version of The Front Page as a 13-week summer series. His Girl Friday: No 13 best comedy film of all time. I admire the character changes in the remake (Hildy goes from man to woman) and the story works just as well.I agree with you about the romance in the first movie being almost more overt than in the remake! This hour-long version is memorable for having a real newspaperman playing Hildy: Walter Winchell, whom producer Cecil B. DeMille introduces as, “The most original, most highly paid, most copied and most widely known among reporters.” His Girl Friday has received a few different origin stories over the years. And of course His Girl Friday is so famous in its own right many may forget that it is a remake- it was one of the first movies ever to have overlapping dialogue, is a favorite amongst Cary Grant fans, and contains the now iconic … So far I haven’t found an online source for that performance, just listings in radio historians’ logs from Jerry Haendiges and Digital Deli and others. They even show some restraint in their reporting. Change ). His Girl Friday / The Front Page by Glenn Erickson Jan 03, 2017 The restoration of a newly rediscovered director’s cut of the 1931 The Front Page prompts this two-feature comedy disc — Lewis Milestone’s early talkie plus the sublime Howard Hawks remake, which … Radio scriptwriters also may have skipped a double-entendre here or there. Adaptations. Journalistic hijinks and … Adapted from the classic stage play The Front Page, the 1940 film His Girl Friday stands out as one of the most fun and well-written comedies. I want to go some place where I can be a woman. The film is also perhaps the perfect example of Hawks' trademarked rapid-fire, overlapping dialogue, which has never been as fast nor as furious anywhere else before or since. His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy drama romance film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. ... Don’t compare this to His Girl Friday. HILDY ... John Guare's theatrical adaptation of the film His Girl Friday was produced at The La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California, in 2013, directed by Christopher Ashley. His Girl Friday (1940) - Your Ex-Wife Is Here Rosalind Russell as Hildy in her famous suit, Ralph Bellamy her new boyfriend, Cary Grant her ex-husband and editor, and Howard Hawks directing with his famous pace, opening the hit 1940 adaptation of the Ben Hecht … It would kill you. Writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur changed Broadway (and later Hollywood) forever when they created The Front Page, a comedy about irascible, mean reporters in Chicago who are waiting for the hanging of Earl Williams–a communist who killed an African American policeman which makes … Your comparisons are a wonderful companion piece to my next viewings.The switch to a gal for "His Girl Friday" is brilliant. The play was … No_Favorite. With Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart. Fans of media technology may be interested in the presence of a new high-tech-in-1948 tape recorder as a plot device. This production r… Jack Carson has the Ralph Bellamy role as Hildy’s intended, Bruce Baldwin. Remade by Howard Hawks as His Girl Friday, the original, from the play by Charles McArthur and Ben Hecht (former newspaperman). This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Adolph Menjou and Pat O’Brien in ‘The Front Page’ Barely a decade later Howard Hawks remade the film as His Girl Friday (1940), transforming the love-hate buddy comedy of dirty tricks into a delicious battle of the sexes by making Hildy (Rosalind Russell) not merely a woman but the editor’s (Cary Grant) ex-wife. New 4K digital restoration of The Front Page, made from a recently discovered print of director Lewis Milestone’s preferred version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. When I watch "The Front Page" I cut O'Brien plenty of slack as he was new to pictures. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of murderer Earl Williams as Burns despe… ( Log Out / ( Log Out / So a million hired girls and motormen’s wives will know what’s going on! The story is more reminiscent of some “Night Beat” human interest plots and — with a murder in the plot — Powell’s movie and radio detective roles (Rogue’s Gallery, summers 1945 & ’46 and Richard Diamond, 1949-53). Alas, he marks that one unavailable. This film, along with (finally) a first-rate print of 1931's "The Front Page" is a revelation in picture and audio quality. Peeking through keyholes — running after fire engines — waking people up in the middle of the night to ask them if they think Hitler’s going to start a war — stealing pictures off old ladies of their daughters that got chased by apemen! The 1946 revival was directed by Charles MacArthur and ran for 79 performances. Nominally a reworking Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play THE FRONT PAGE, HIS GIRL Friday manages to surpass it's classic source material and emerge as one of the screen's finest comedies. I love Rosalind Russell. Rank This Matchup. A Lombard film is finally on DVD. BURNS As with the original films, “The Front Page” (with a male Hildy Johnson) made it to the air a few years before the Hildy-is-a-lady re-incarnation. The Front Page vs. His Girl Friday 0 comments. Gilbert Seldes was later to become the first director of television for CBS News and founding dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. The Front Page should take an esteemed place in film history for being the fertile breeding ground of screwball comedy in general and many of its masterpieces, including His Girl Friday, in particular. The original stars of the 1931 film, Pat O’Brien as Hildy and Adolphe Menjou as Walter Burns, the role that brought him an Oscar nomination, did a half-hour Academy Award Theater adaptation on radio in 1946. Walter Burns, editor, doesn’t want to lose his star. His Girl Friday is based on the famous Hecht & MacArthur play, The Front Page. That’s why I’m quitting. Ford Theater was a high-quality anthology series that ran for only two years, just as television was beginning to cut into the audience for evening home entertainment. His Girl Friday is very much a screwball comedy, and that genre in itself is a product of its time. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. But by turning ace reporter Hildy Johnson from a man in "The Front Page" to a woman in "His Girl Friday" … All of these MP3 files are from the Old Time Radio collection at archive.org. Powell even gets to speak a couple of lines in Swedish. A journalist! The Front Page (1931) as His Girl Friday (1940), cannily changing the gender of the editor and reporter at the centre of the story from two men to a man (Grant) and a woman (Rosalind Russell), respectively. Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant present a compressed version of their already fast-moving film in this 30-minute 1941 adaptation of the 1940 film. They report that in 1942 the same series also did “His Girl Friday” with Paulette Goddard in the Rosalind Russell role as a female Hildy Johnson.). His Girl Friday — Screen Guild Theater 1941. Walter Burns is played by James Gleason, no stranger to Hollywood’s versions of newsrooms in “Meet John Doe” and other films. 34 … The story concerns an editor (Walter Burns) trying to keep his best reporter (Hildy Johnson) from quitting and getting married so he can cover a breaking story. I know you, Hildy, and I know what it would mean. IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. They can't get any better than this. Powell and Conrad’s portrayals had little in common with the fast-talking Walter and Hildy newsroom rascals of the “Front Page” play and movies. New interview with film scholar David Bordwell about His Girl Friday. Step Right Up...Er, I Mean...Step Right OVER, Folks! Learn how your comment data is processed. Their paper is called the “Examiner,” not the original play’s “Morning Express.” It competes with a “Tribune,” represented by some tavern banter between Hildy and a Tribune reporter, as well as Walter’s calling Hildy on the carpet when the Tribune gets a story first. Rosalind Russell was back in 1944 for another radio production, on the Goodyear Tire Co. series, The Star & the Story, according to radio historian Jerry Haendiges’ log of available and unavailable episodes. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Not Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant, this hour-long version has Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, and a tongue-in-cheek opening address to the press from Cecil B. DeMille. on 7/4/2014. Both the film “ His Girl Friday ” (1940) and the hit 1928 play and 1931 film that inspired it, “ The Front Page,” were adapted for radio more than once. Howard Hawks, 1940. The Front Page is a Broadway comedy about newspaper reporters on the police beat. Hawks's typically clean, unobtrusive direction gives the actors … Directed by Howard Hawks. It isn't even past.". EMBED. The Front Page 1931. The original play was by former newspapermen Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur, a send-up of journalistic excesses and urban political corruption, based on their experiences in Chicago a decade earlier. Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns on the air. Madcap humor, witty and quick dialogue, and a few over-the-top moments make this a movie worth watching. No, Walter, I’m through. His Girl Friday has received a few different origin stories over the years. Directed by Lewis Milestone • 1931 • United States Based on the Broadway play of the same name (which was also the basis for Howard Hawks’ HIS GIRL FRIDAY) THE FRONT PAGE is a screwball comedy focusing on two newspapermen hoping to capitalize on a story about an escaped prisoner. Old-time radio's mild-mannered reporters & crusading editors wield the "flaming sword" of a free press. … It was released by Columbia Pictures. In the list below, click the series name to download or to play the file on an iPad or other device that doesn’t show a player icon. The difference between "The Front Page" and "His Girl Friday" is pre-code versus post-code, scene chewers versus scene stealers and, above all, Hildebrand Johnson versus Hildegarde Johnson. The 1986–87 revival was produced at the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center, directed by Jerry Zaks and starred Richard Thomas as Hildy and John Lithgowas Burns. A June 3, 1948, episode survives in the Old Time Radio Researchers group online library as “The Frightened Swede,” with Hildy tipped off that his Swedish roots could get him a story from an eccentric old man giving away $10 bills on a street corner. In the list below, click the series name to download or to play the file on an iPad or other device that doesn’t show a player icon. Her range as a spot-on comic performer is amazing. Radio couldn’t show the feet on the desks or the poker game in the courthouse newsroom. A Truman era Front Page!? Directed by Hollywood master Howard Hawks and adapted from the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, His Girl Friday stars Cary Grant as a newspaper editor who will stop at nothing to lure his former star reporter (Rosalind Russell) -- who also happens to be his ex-wife -- back onto the newspaper and into his life. 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