Summer Classic Comedy Movies - 17

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of murderer Earl Williams as Burns desperately tries to win back his wife. The screenplay was adapted from the 1928 play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. This was the second time the play had been adapted for the screen, the first occasion being the 1931 film which kept the original title The Front Page. The script for His Girl Friday was written by Charles Lederer with the most major alteration to the source material being the changing of Hildy Johnson's gender, an idea introduced by Hawks

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therighttothink50 · 56-60, M

Where is The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Music Box and It’s A MAD,MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD?

How about the modern classics like Stripes, The Dream Team, Let It Ride, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and What About Bob?

val70 · 51-55

@therighttothink50 You might not have noticed but my choices also have a historical theme in it. Can't say that the comedies that you mentioned there have that :)