His Girl Friday Page #35

Synopsis: When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), has gotten engaged to milquetoast insurance agent Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy), he unsuccessfully tries to lure her away from tame domestic life with a story about the impending execution of convicted murderer Earl Williams. But when Hildy discovers Williams may be innocent, her reporter instincts take over.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Production: Columbia Pictures
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
98%
PASSED
Year:
1940
92 min
970 Views


HILDY:

(as Endicott and Wilson

enter room)

Came up here -- had hysterics and

passed out. I've been trying to get

her to come to.

INT. PRESS ROOM MED. SHOT

Mollie is shaking her head.

ENDICOTT:

She looks as though she's going to

come to.

HILDY:

Give me a hand with her, will you?

ENDICOTT:

Okay.

(lifting Mollie)

Up you go, Mollie.

Hildy and Endicott lift Mollie and seat her in a chair. Wilson

crosses to his phone.

CLOSE SHOT WILSON AT PHONE

WILSON:

(into Phone)

City Desk.

MED. CLOSE SHOT

Taking in Hildy, Wilson and Mollie and Endicott.

ENDICOTT:

She'll be all right.

(crosses to his phone)

The Desk.

WILSON:

(into phone)

Well, they surrounded the house, all

right, only they forgot to tell

Williams, and he wasn't there.

MED. LONG SHOT TAKING IN DOOR

Murphy comes in.

MURPHY:

(seeing Hildy, who

has been fastening

Mollie's blouse)

Hildy, I thought you were gone --

HILDY:

Well -- I was going, but Mollie

fainted away and I thought I ought

to do what I could.

MURPHY:

Some Hallowe'en goin' on outside.

The whole police force standing on

it's ear.

Murphy crosses to his phone. McCue comes in.

MCCUE:

(panting)

What a chase!

ENDICOTT:

(into phone)

No luck on Williams, yet -- call you

back.

He hangs up.

WILSON:

(into phone)

Okay, later.

He hangs up.

MURPHY:

(into phone)

Murphy talking.

Schwartz comes in.

HILDY:

Any news?

SCHWARTZ:

Yeah. I was never so tired in my

life.

He picks up his phone.

MCCUE:

(into phone)

Where? Harrison Street Station? All

right, connect me.

SCHWARTZ:

(into phone)

Schwartz calling... Out with Hartman's

deputies. I'm in a drugstore. You

can't call me back because I'm going

right on with them.

He hangs up -- puts his feet on the desk.

CLOSE SHOT HILDY AND MOLLIE

HILDY:

Are you all right, now?

MOLLIE:

Yeah, I'm feelin' fine.

MED. SHOT GROUP

MURPHY:

Sure, Mollie, you never looked better

in your life.

MCCUE:

(turning from phone)

Yeah, hold the line. Hey, this looks

good. An old lady just called the

detective bureau and claims Williams

is hiding in her cellar. Well - we've

looked every other place. Want to go

out on it?

ENDICOTT:

Aw, nuts with chasing around any

more. I spent a dollar-forty on taxis

already.

SCHWARTZ:

I say we don't go out any more. Let

Earl Williams come to us.

CLOSEUP HILDY:

HILDY:

A fine bunch of reporters. Biggest

story in two years and they're too

lazy to go after it.

MED. SHOT GROUP

ENDICOTT:

It's easy for you to talk. You're

retired. We're still working.

MCCUE:

Okay.

(into phone)

Forget it.

(he hangs up)

HILDY:

What's the matter with you boys?

Afraid it might rain? If you want to

go, I'll cover this end.

MURPHY:

Say, Hildy, if I know you, you sound

pretty anxious to get rid of us. Are

you trying to scoop us or something?

ENDICOTT:

Something smells around here. If you

ask me Mollie gave her the story on

how Williams got that gun.

(turning on Mollie)

Did you smuggle that gun into

Williams, Mollie?

MOLLIE:

I didn't do nothin'.

MCCUE:

(crossing to Mollie)

Come clean, Mollie.

Wilson, Endicott and Murphy follow McCue toward Hildy.

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Charles Lederer

Charles Lederer was an American screenwriter and film director. He was born into a prominent theatrical family in New York, and after his parents divorced, was raised in California by his aunt, Marion ... more…

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