While Hollywood is presently dealing with its deeply-rooted and crooked gender politics, which have been brought to the fore with the emergence of #MeToo and Time's Up, two movements against sexual harassment and workplace inequality, Nobody's
Girl Friday serves as a reminder of the early days before Hollywood turned into what Smyth describes as "a bastion of male privilege."
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His
Girl Friday is the 1940 classic battle-of-the-sexes, re-marriage-as-screwball comedy starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy involving a newspaper editor, his ex-wife star reporter, her new fiance (along with his mother), and an escaped criminal hiding out in a roll-top desk in the newspaper's bull-pen.
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After accepting a job as a secretary and "
Girl Friday" for James J.
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Movies like It Happened One Night and His
Girl Friday put forward sanitized scenarios of adultery and eventual remarriage that renegotiated both marriage and romance.
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For his next exhibit, he holds up a pair of frame enlargements from Howard Hawks's His
Girl Friday. One is a close-up of Cary Grant, the other is a comparable reverse-angle shot of Rosalind Russell.
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Mum Lucy, who spent a year on a paradise island 17 years ago as Gerald Kingsland's
Girl Friday, last night claimed he had been unfairly treated.
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I ended up being their "
Girl Friday", making the tea and coffee, dealing with clients and visiting galleries, and I quickly learnt a great deal about maps.
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As is well known- Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 play The Front Page was first made into a film by Lewis Milestone in 1931 and then by Howard Hawks as His
Girl Friday in 1939.
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She worked as a secretary or "
Girl Friday" during the summers between college.
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Ann, Jamaica; 888-FOR-KIDS) have made it easy for families to play together or apart with its "
Girl Friday" concept.
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Its writerdirector team, Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, fondly hopes to revive the sort of wisecracking screwball comedy that reached its zenith in His
Girl Friday; if it's possible to bring in a few mystery elements, as in The Thin Man, then so much the better.
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Hawks's films tend to explore either the activities of spirited and sharp - witted heroines (e.g., His
Girl Friday, 1939) or the camaraderies and tensions that develop within male groups (e.g., Dawn Patrol, 1930).
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Renowned producer Margaret Matheson introduces Hebrides-shot drama Iona starring Ruth Negga, director Mike Day hosts a screening of The Islands and the Whales, and film critic Karen Krizanovich introduces classic comedy His
Girl Friday which will be followed by a highly topical in-conversation about Women and Film.
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'She was with her
girl Friday during the incident,' Aguirre said, adding that Lalaine's companion could testify that the ambush was not fake.
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