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His Girl Friday: 85 Years On

His Girl Friday: 85 Years On

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell still sparkle in Howard Hawks’s frenetic classic screwball comedy

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Jan 28, 2025
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The legacy of Howard Hawks’s classic 1940 screwball comedy was underlined to me yet again recently, when viewing Bojack Horseman (2014–2020). My youngest child introduced me to this animated TV series by insisting (correctly) that I’d enjoy the satire. In the final series, we meet Paige Sinclair, a fast-talking jour…

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