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."
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.
After accepting a job as a secretary and "
Girl Friday" for James J.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
She worked as a secretary or "
Girl Friday" during the summers between college.
Ann, Jamaica; 888-FOR-KIDS) have made it easy for families to play together or apart with its "
Girl Friday" concept.
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.
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).
Gone
Girl Friday, W, 9pm A gripping adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestselling thriller.
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.
'She was with her
girl Friday during the incident,' Aguirre said, adding that Lalaine's companion could testify that the ambush was not fake.
