Saturday, August 1, 2015, 8 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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(Howard Hawks, US 1940, 92 min., 35mm)
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His Girl Friday is a gender-bending version of Hecht and MacArthur’s comedy The Front Page. Rosalind Russell plays a breathless whiz of a reporter determined to give up her typewriter for a wedding ring, but her editor and ex-husband Cary Grant makes it hard for her to leave. The breathlessly delivered gags and dialogue are a signature of master comedy director Howard Hawks.