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Tonight, as part of its "Reel Journalism" series, the Newseum presents His Girl Friday , the fast-talking screwball comedy starring Cary Grant as a newspaper editor trying to sabotage the wedding plans of ex-wife and star reporter Rosalind Russell.

TUESDAY: Every once in a while, the Newseum shows films about journalism, to keep us all good and inspired about the free press.

Duration: 58:11 CC Stereo TVPG This program traces the remarkable show business career of this legendary actress of Hollywood's Golden Era.

Spooks Run Wild , 1941, b&w. Phil Rosen , Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall and the gang.

In the classic American movie "His Girl Friday" starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant much of the action is in the press room of a prison in the hours before an execution.

News & Media / Entertainment Author: STEVEN D. GREYDANUS Source: ZATHURA, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, THE AWFUL TRUTH Video Picks & Passes CONTENT ADVISORY: Zathura contains much moderate sci-fi action menace and violence; some crude language; brief, oblique sexually related references; normalized depiction of divorce The Awful Truth and His Girl Friday ...

This write up of Head On at the AV Club looks interesting: Rewatching Fatih Akin's jagged 2004 film Head-On for a second time had me pondering a variation on the same question: Why were late-'30s/early-'40s romantic comedies like The Lady Eve , It Happened One Night , Adam's Rib , and His Girl Friday so brilliant where the rom-coms of today are so ...

FILMS on Friday is like a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a vest. And this week it doesn't exist.

There is nothing that doesn't lie on the surface of The Invention of Lying like a cold body on a marble slab, naked and exposed for audiences to have their way with.

Elegant. Witty. Stylish. A totally original talent. "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant even I want to be Cary Grant," he was fond of saying.

This screwball comedy from 1940 will leave you wondering, "Is this Bringing Up Baby ?" Nope.

Does the announced remake of "Yellow Submarine" make you feel like a Blue Meanie? "There's nothing new except that which has been forgotten," proclaimed Rose Bertin, Marie Antoinette's milliner.

The romantic comedy hit its peak in the 1930s and it has been largely downhill ever since.

Battle of the sexes films peaked in the 1940s with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey vehicles such as 1949's Adam's Rib and Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.

Silent-film images of "Cinderella" and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" flickered across a Downtown movie screen and provided Mike Rivera the perfect outing for his family Sunday.

Silent-film images of "Cinderella" and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" flickered across a Downtown movie screen and provided Mike Rivera the perfect outing for his family Sunday.

EW Home // DVD // Reviews // Icons of Screwball Comedy, Vols 1 & 2 WISE CRACKS Fred MacMurray, Jean Arthur, and Melvyn Douglas in Too Many Husbands Everett Collection By Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column In the 1930s and '40s, stars like Cary Grant and Katharine ...

Consider the plot of this movie: A wealthy divorcee from a socially prominent family is about to remarry.

FOR much of the studio era, Columbia Pictures was essentially a Poverty Row operation.

If "The Ugly Truth" gets you in the mood for more battle-of-the-sexes romantic comedies, here are some films to choose from on DVD.