Screwball Summer: His Girl Friday 
One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable screwball comedies ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women.
Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (Cary Grant), who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that’s supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife.
When adapting Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s smash hit play The Front Page, director Howard Hawks had the inspired idea of turning star reporter Hildy Johnson into a woman, and the result is an immortal mix of hard-boiled newsroom setting with ebullient remarriage comedy.
The astonishingly rapid dialogue has been estimated at 250 words per minute against an industry average of 100-150 words - can you keep up?
From the gumball bottom to the cherry on top, QFT is having a Screwball Summer. We are celebrating the fast-talking farce of the screwball comedy with a season guaranteed to tickle your funny bone.
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