
Bringing Up Baby(1938)
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.


“They're at each other's throats when they're not in each other's arms!”
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

Cary Grant
Walter Burns

Rosalind Russell
Hildy Johnson

Ralph Bellamy
Bruce Baldwin

Gene Lockhart
Sheriff Hartwell

Porter Hall
Murphy

Ernest Truex
Bensinger

Cliff Edwards
Endicott

Clarence Kolb
Mayor

Roscoe Karns
McCue

Frank Jenks
Wilson
His Girl Friday is a comedy, romance, drama film released in 1940 exploring themes of prison, journalist, suicide, journalism, based on play or musical, wager. Directed by Howard Hawks, it stars Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy. Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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