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Why is the title of the film 'His Girl Friday'? Lachatdelarue (talk) 2 July 2005 20:56 (UTC)
I read somewhere that this was the first cinematic example of overlapping dialogue. Can anybody corroborate this? Clarityfiend 04:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I removed "Noted to be Quentin Tarantino's fourth favorite movie." It's not particularly notable and is already in the Tarantino article. Besides, according to that article, his favorites seem to change with time. Clarityfiend 05:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
The Hudsucker Proxy is heavily colored by this movie, especially the newsroom scenes. Is it worth a mention?
In the Trivia section of this article it is stated that, "Walter tells Ralph Bellamy's character that he looks a lot like an actor...Ralph Bellamy."
As I recall the scene, Walter is on the phone describing the Bellamy character to an accomplice of his named "Louie." It is during this converstaion that Walter mentions to Louie that the Bellamy character looks like that actor Ralph Bellamy. He never to my recollection makes this observation directly to Bellamy.
69.120.111.236 10:56, 24 November 2006 (UTC)Ubermouze
The Adaptation section contains a sentence which states that His Girl Friday inspired the 1974 film, The Front Page. What? How precisely does a movie which is itself an adaptation of the stage play The Front Page from 1928 manage this feat? Yes, His Girl Friday was the most successful adaptation of the play, but that doesn't make it noteworthy as an inspiration for the 1974 film. If it inspired anything in the 1974 film, it was the hope that it would be just as successful. 1988's Switching Channels was more inspired by His Girl Friday than the 1974 version of The Front Page, yet there's no mention of it at all. It also states that Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau are playing the roles of Rosalind Russel and Cary Grant. This is also patently false, as the characters in the original play version of The Front page were Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns. I am completely removing this sentence. Wyldstaar ( talk) 22:18, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Actually, multi-track recording was available at the time. The RCA system laid down seven tracks on 35mm film. It was used for Orchestra Wives, Sun Valley Serenade and most notably, Fantasia. Even if Howard Hawks had been aware of it and wanted to use it, the ever-stingy Harry Cohen would have nixed it. WilliamSommerwerck ( talk) 23:43, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
"But during auditions, a woman, Howard Hawks' secretary, read reporter Hildy Johnson's lines" - did this woman have a name or was she some mere chattel undeserving of being treated like a human being? Both of the links used as references are dead. DuncanHill ( talk) 14:45, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
I read in the Interpretation section: "and they consider staying with Bruce in Albany." That was a joke by Burns. I removed that clause. (I can hardly believe a critic said that.) Zaslav ( talk) 08:36, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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Why is the title of the film 'His Girl Friday'? Lachatdelarue (talk) 2 July 2005 20:56 (UTC)
I read somewhere that this was the first cinematic example of overlapping dialogue. Can anybody corroborate this? Clarityfiend 04:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I removed "Noted to be Quentin Tarantino's fourth favorite movie." It's not particularly notable and is already in the Tarantino article. Besides, according to that article, his favorites seem to change with time. Clarityfiend 05:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
The Hudsucker Proxy is heavily colored by this movie, especially the newsroom scenes. Is it worth a mention?
In the Trivia section of this article it is stated that, "Walter tells Ralph Bellamy's character that he looks a lot like an actor...Ralph Bellamy."
As I recall the scene, Walter is on the phone describing the Bellamy character to an accomplice of his named "Louie." It is during this converstaion that Walter mentions to Louie that the Bellamy character looks like that actor Ralph Bellamy. He never to my recollection makes this observation directly to Bellamy.
69.120.111.236 10:56, 24 November 2006 (UTC)Ubermouze
The Adaptation section contains a sentence which states that His Girl Friday inspired the 1974 film, The Front Page. What? How precisely does a movie which is itself an adaptation of the stage play The Front Page from 1928 manage this feat? Yes, His Girl Friday was the most successful adaptation of the play, but that doesn't make it noteworthy as an inspiration for the 1974 film. If it inspired anything in the 1974 film, it was the hope that it would be just as successful. 1988's Switching Channels was more inspired by His Girl Friday than the 1974 version of The Front Page, yet there's no mention of it at all. It also states that Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau are playing the roles of Rosalind Russel and Cary Grant. This is also patently false, as the characters in the original play version of The Front page were Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns. I am completely removing this sentence. Wyldstaar ( talk) 22:18, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Actually, multi-track recording was available at the time. The RCA system laid down seven tracks on 35mm film. It was used for Orchestra Wives, Sun Valley Serenade and most notably, Fantasia. Even if Howard Hawks had been aware of it and wanted to use it, the ever-stingy Harry Cohen would have nixed it. WilliamSommerwerck ( talk) 23:43, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
"But during auditions, a woman, Howard Hawks' secretary, read reporter Hildy Johnson's lines" - did this woman have a name or was she some mere chattel undeserving of being treated like a human being? Both of the links used as references are dead. DuncanHill ( talk) 14:45, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
I read in the Interpretation section: "and they consider staying with Bruce in Albany." That was a joke by Burns. I removed that clause. (I can hardly believe a critic said that.) Zaslav ( talk) 08:36, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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