Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : sound, black and white |
Summary |
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 that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife |
Notes |
Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1939 |
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From the play "The Front Page" by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur |
Credits |
Director of photograhy, Joseph Walker ; film editor, Gene Havlick ; musical director, M.W. Stoloff |
Cast |
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall |
Notes |
English language soundtrack with optional English closed-captioning |
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Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Kanopy, viewed January 9, 2024) |
Subject |
Divorced people -- Drama
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama
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Journalists -- Drama
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Newspaper employees -- Drama
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Press and politics -- New York (State) -- Drama
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Divorced people
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Journalists
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Man-woman relationships
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Newspaper employees
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Genre/Form |
screwball comedy.
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Internet videos
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Fiction films
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Films for the hearing impaired
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Drama
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Feature films
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Screwball comedy films.
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Comedy films.
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Internet videos.
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Fiction films.
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Films for the hearing impaired.
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Feature films.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Films de fiction.
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Films pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Comédies loufoques (Films)
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Films comiques.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977, film director
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Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976, screenwriter.
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Walker, Joseph B., director of photography.
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Havlick, Gene, 1894-1959, editor of moving image work.
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Stoloff, Morris, 1898-1980, musical director.
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Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor.
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Bellamy, Ralph, 1904-1991, actor.
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Russell, Rosalind, actor.
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Lockhart, Gene, 1891-1957, actor.
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Mack, Helen, actor.
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Hall, Porter, 1888-1953, actor.
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MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956, author.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964.
Front page.
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Columbia Pictures Corporation, production company.
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