His Girl Friday (1940, U.S.A.)

A classic screwball comedy in which Russell plays reporter Hildy Johnson, who, on the eve of her remarriage, is talked into one more assignment by her editor and ex-husband, Grant. While interviewing a condemned man, Hildy realizes that his hanging is planned as a vote-getting measure. Spontaneously, she helps the man escape. DIRECTOR Howard Hawks ACTOR Ralph Bellamy, Cliff Edwards, Cary Grant, Porter Hall, Roscoe Karns, Clarence Kolb, Gene Lockhart, Rosalind Russell, Ernest Truex