*RETRO REACTION* ACTRESS REACTS to HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) FIRST TIME WATCHING

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  • @alexbrunner1900
    @alexbrunner1900 7 місяців тому +26

    You could never go wrong with a Cary Grant film

  • @Qualimar
    @Qualimar 7 місяців тому +21

    Ralph Bellamy had a ridiculously long film career. His last role was in 'Pretty Woman' in 1990!

    • @DavetheGrue
      @DavetheGrue 6 місяців тому +6

      I wonder how many people will recognize him as one of the Duke brothers from Trading Places.

    • @ZeroOskul
      @ZeroOskul 3 місяці тому +1

      Too many people see Coming to America first and never get the indirect sequel joke.​@@DavetheGrue

  • @TedLittle-yp7uj
    @TedLittle-yp7uj 7 місяців тому +21

    Another Cary Grant film that you would love is "Arsenic and Old Lace,"

  • @najhoant
    @najhoant 7 місяців тому +22

    The movie started as an adaptation of a play called The Front Page, where Hildy is a man and Walter is just his editor who doesn't want to see his top reporter get married and quit his job. Then the director, Howard Hawks, held auditions for the movie and had his secretary, a woman, read Hildy's lines. He liked how the snappy dialogue sounded when being read by a woman and made Hildy a woman, made Walter her ex-husband and added the romance plot

    • @HonRevPTB
      @HonRevPTB 3 місяці тому +1

      Goes to show how dames are magical and can add a drop of spice and perfection to lots of stuff and make it a whole lot better!!!!!!! 🤗👍😁😎👏😉

  • @westlock
    @westlock 6 місяців тому +5

    The year before making this movie, Rosalind Russell starred in _The Women_ a movie in which not a single man or boy has a line of dialog. Huge fun.

  • @AstroXeno
    @AstroXeno 6 місяців тому +11

    In the late 40s, there was a genre called the 'screwball comedy', of which, His Girl Friday is considere4d the archetype.

  • @CharlieCanfield
    @CharlieCanfield 6 місяців тому +7

    another name joke reference: Cary Grant/Walter Burns at some point says "the last person who said that to me was Archie Leach...", which is Cary's birth name.

  • @joegaspard9762
    @joegaspard9762 7 місяців тому +9

    I’d watch a Philadelphia Story video essay. I love the movie, though the father/daughter stuff is tough to watch. I’d love to hear your take on that.

  • @richardwhite3041
    @richardwhite3041 6 місяців тому +2

    Love this movie!! Cary Grant makes a statement during the movie that the last person to double cross him was Archie Leach and look what happened to him. Grant's real name was Archie Leach.

  • @rabbitandcrow
    @rabbitandcrow 6 місяців тому +3

    The Philadelphia Story - with Cary Grant, James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn. You'll love it!

    • @juliewagner3023
      @juliewagner3023 6 місяців тому +1

      She said she’s seen The Philadelphia Story and does in fact love it 🥰

  • @SuperFanCom
    @SuperFanCom 6 місяців тому +1

    I can watch this movie over and over and still love it, it's there with the Maltese Falcon, Mildred price, the 3rd man and citizen kane

  • @clairehenderson9710
    @clairehenderson9710 7 місяців тому +7

    I love Rosalind Russell ❤

  • @sballuk
    @sballuk 7 місяців тому +12

    After this and "It Happened One Night", you might like "My Man Godfrey" for another high chaos screwball comedy.

    • @jnagarya519
      @jnagarya519 2 місяці тому

      And William Powell also in the "Thin Man" series.

  • @LordVolkov
    @LordVolkov 7 місяців тому +10

    Try the Marx Brothers for some fast-talking comedians (except Harpo😉). Duck Soup, A Night At The Opera, and Horsefeathers are great places to start witj the bros.

  • @melenatorr
    @melenatorr 6 місяців тому +2

    Rosalind Russell is wonderful in "Auntie Mame". She also manages to steal the show in chaotic plethora of female talent in "The Women". And a bunch of other great movies. Bellamy played second banana to Grant a couple of times, notably in 'The Awful Truth".

  • @HuntingViolets
    @HuntingViolets 7 місяців тому +12

    On the other hand, journalism is very important for a free society.

    • @bluebird3281
      @bluebird3281 6 місяців тому +4

      Too bad in died out in the 90's

  • @HuntingViolets
    @HuntingViolets 7 місяців тому +4

    One of my favorite movies.

  • @davidludwig1492
    @davidludwig1492 6 місяців тому +1

    There is a remake of this film called Switching Channels starring Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner, and Christopher Reeve back in 1988 that I think you might enjoy as well.

  • @HuntingViolets
    @HuntingViolets 7 місяців тому +3

    There are several versions of this story, two as _The Front Page_ (with two men), one in television news using the male-female setup from this remake, _Switching Channels,_ and maybe some others.

  • @TheCkent100
    @TheCkent100 7 місяців тому +2

    I think my favorite part of this movie is the 4th wall break joke. Walter Burns: "There's a guy in a taxi down at the court building looks just like that movie star, what's his name? Ralph Bellamy!" (referring to Bruce). Younger people may not realize that Ralph Bellamy actually played the part of Bruce.

    • @bluebird3281
      @bluebird3281 6 місяців тому +1

      Grant also says the last man to cross me was Archie Leech and look what happened to him. Archie leech being Cary Grant's real name

  • @mattx449
    @mattx449 7 місяців тому +7

    Your reaction was almost as hysterical as the film 😂 you should definitely mix in more old films just to add variety to your reactions.

  • @melissadahl7561
    @melissadahl7561 6 місяців тому

    This is one of my favorite movies and I LOVE the way Hildy and Walter play off each other.

  • @Dej24601
    @Dej24601 7 місяців тому +4

    Another Rosalind Russel tour-de-force is “Auntie Mame” (1958) with an exceptional script, incredible costuming & sets, wonderful acting and a story that is hilarious, heartwarming and has a profound sense of love. The script has so many references to cultural influences, historical events, social trends, and done with more wit than hundreds of other films. Keep the captions on, because the dialogue, again, is often pretty quick.

  • @tranya327
    @tranya327 7 місяців тому +8

    Do NOT expect to find many films like "His Girl Friday!" Not that they didn't try; There's a 1931 version of the film, along with a remake in 1974 ('The Front Page', with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon), then a TV version in the late 1980s, 'Switching Channels' (With Burt Reynolds in the Walter Burns role, and Kathleen Turner playing Hildy Johnson. Christopher Reeve took the Bruce Baldwin role.) NONE are as good as this version! Almost no film I can think of, can match the level of energy put out in this film ("The Fifth Element" from 1997, is one.)
    A few lines of dialogue that didn't make it into your final cut:
    Walter (into the phone, talking to his staff) "No, I don't care about the Chinese earthquake... I don't care if there's a MILLION dead!" (Then, after a pause) "No, leave the rooster story alone, that's human interest!"

    • @TheTerryGene
      @TheTerryGene 6 місяців тому +1

      One of the few things that I liked about “Switching Channels” is the in-joke about Christopher Reeve’s character having a fear of heights. Reeve was, of course, Superman.

  • @MrGpschmidt
    @MrGpschmidt 7 місяців тому +3

    One of the greatest screwball comedies ever. The chemistry between Grant & Russell is *chef's kiss*. Clariss - to cleanse your pallate of the bad taste of journalism I have 4 words for you: ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN. You're welcome.

  • @ariwl1
    @ariwl1 7 місяців тому +1

    One of my favorite movies of all time. The wit and the speed of the dialogue is so impressive and the characters are so compelling even if 90% of them are kind of awful. XD

  • @jerrywalters8885
    @jerrywalters8885 7 місяців тому +5

    A great retro Love story filmed on location in Ireland with Love Action and Comedyvis THE QUIET MAN with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara

  • @custardflan
    @custardflan 7 місяців тому +2

    In the original play, titled The Front Page, Hildy was a man. It's an homage to the golden era of Chicago newspapering.

  • @gallendugall8913
    @gallendugall8913 7 місяців тому +2

    A movie for people who love dialog.

  • @mikeduplessis8069
    @mikeduplessis8069 7 місяців тому +8

    Not Cary Grant's craziest film. You NEED to watch 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938) with Catherine Hepburn. Or 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (1944). George Clooney patterned his career after Cary Grant.

    • @RossM3838
      @RossM3838 6 місяців тому

      My favorite of many favorites is north by northwest. He says you can’t kidnap me I have two exwives and three bartenders who are depending on me.

    • @RossM3838
      @RossM3838 6 місяців тому

      Grant began as a knock about comedian on the British vaudeville circuit. He had vast experience in generating chaos. Even in father goose, a weaker but still very good movie, he creates funny chaos

  • @erikagholston6610
    @erikagholston6610 7 місяців тому +2

    Cary Grant is one of my favorite actors, but Rosalind Russell stole the show.

  • @cjmacq-vg8um
    @cjmacq-vg8um 6 місяців тому +1

    cary grant references his real name - archie leach - towards the end of this film. for another side of grant watch hictcock's "suspicion." co-starring joan fontaine it was made the year after this film. there's also "penny serenade" co-starring irene dunne also made in 1941. grant plays 2 very different roles and plays them very well.
    rosalind russell played the headstrong stage mother in the 1962 musical "gypsy" about the life of famed stripper gypsy rose lee. co-srarring natalie wood as gypsy.
    and you have to watch frank capra's "mr. smith goes to washington" (1939) starring jimmy stewart and jean arthur. a classic comedy/drama about political corruption. all these films are must see films for any movie afficianodo. thanks for the video.

    • @cjmacq-vg8um
      @cjmacq-vg8um 6 місяців тому

      seriously, do you have to spew the "f" word in every sentence? grow up. the whole world needs to GROW THE HELL UP!

  • @agenttheater5
    @agenttheater5 6 місяців тому

    Just so you know, the "Archie Leach" line - that was Cary Grant's real name. Archibald Leach - and he's actually from England. Started out in vaudeville (I think he did a lot of stilt work but don't quote me on that I"m not sure) and then used the comedic timing and small bits of acrobatics he picked up there in a lot of his movies.

  • @davida.j.berner776
    @davida.j.berner776 6 місяців тому +1

    Gotta love Hildy Johnson! Isn't it funny that Hollywood was better at writing strong female characters in the 1940s than it is today?! 😁

  • @DavetheGrue
    @DavetheGrue 6 місяців тому +2

    A few things:
    1. Russell was fabulous, but she did a lot of stage work and this is the only classic film she's remembered for.
    2. This movies illustrates something important: journalist used to be a working class profession. It's downfall came when they all had to have graduate degrees.
    3. Back in the day they couldn't be explicit about it, but audiences were expected to realize Mollie was a prostitute. That's why the guys don't treat her with any respect.
    4. They deliberately set out to break the record for fastest dialogue in a film. ("Talkies" were only a dozen years old at that point.) The actors had to ad lib a lot as a result.
    5. The big question: was Hildy ever serious about Bruce? Why did she bring him by to meet Walter? Did she play them both because she decided she wanted Walter back?

  • @carlanderson7618
    @carlanderson7618 6 місяців тому

    Another good Gary Grant movie is The Philadelphia Story (1940) A romantic comedy. It also starred, Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart (he won an academy award for best actor).

  • @markcastellanet9672
    @markcastellanet9672 6 місяців тому +1

    This is what you call a screw ball comedy. They do these days rapid fire lines with rapid jokes.

  • @RossM3838
    @RossM3838 7 місяців тому +1

    Hawks had the actors speaking 3 times faster than normal speach

  • @terpcj
    @terpcj 7 місяців тому +1

    Screwball was a very specific genre that is hard to replicate. _Gilmore Girls_ probably came the closest in modern-ish times (65-80 pp per 1-hour teleplay...yeesh). While many did it, Grant and Hepburn were masters. It's always amazing to see that the gulf between "the press" and "journalism" (both perception and reality) has always been wide and deep -- sometimes it's wider and deeper than others.

  • @juliewagner3023
    @juliewagner3023 6 місяців тому

    I always get excited anytime I see your Retro Reactions! Yes please, more and more, there are so many amazing ones!
    - Top Hat
    - Roman Holiday
    - The Thin Man
    - anything with Humphrey Bogart
    - High Society for a fun musical twist on The Philadelphia Story
    I could go on and on!

  • @henrytjernlund
    @henrytjernlund 6 місяців тому

    Two of my favorite Cary Grant films are Operation Pettycoat and Father Goose that take place during WWII.

  • @lnwolf41
    @lnwolf41 7 місяців тому +3

    There is a newer version @ Switching Channels, stars Kathleen Turner, Christerphor Reeves, and Burt Renyolds. Well worth a watch.

  • @deckofcards87
    @deckofcards87 6 місяців тому

    The screenplay by Charles Lederer and Ben Hecht is one of the greatest of all time, and of course nobody could fire off the words as well as Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant. She in particular chews the scenery here.

    • @anthonyleecollins9319
      @anthonyleecollins9319 6 місяців тому

      I believe both Lederer and Hecht had worked for newspapers before they wrote the original play.

  • @bjm9071
    @bjm9071 7 місяців тому

    A similar comedy is "The Awful Truth" with Cary Grant with co-star Irene Dunne. Ralph Bellamy again playing the man who wants to marry Irene. Not as fast-paced as His Girl Friday, but a lot of fun.

  • @RealNazrax
    @RealNazrax 7 місяців тому +2

    I've never seen this movie, though I've heard a lot about it. However, one of my favorite movies is the screwball comedy "The Hudsucker Proxy," and its female lead heavily based her performance off of this movie. You may enjoy it!

  • @halcromwell9030
    @halcromwell9030 Місяць тому

    My favorite screwball comedy is Bringing Up Baby (Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, May Robinson and a lot more). It was remade (loosely) as What's Up Doc with Barbaraand Strisand and Ryan O'neal.

  • @Infamous1991
    @Infamous1991 7 місяців тому +7

    Please react to the movie Double Indemnity you gonna love it

  • @agenttheater5
    @agenttheater5 6 місяців тому

    14:47 And hopefully he ends up with someone who puts her foot down and says "we're not living with your mother, she can visit for a week a couple of times a year but that's that"

  • @Nkanyiso_K
    @Nkanyiso_K 7 місяців тому +1

    My friend a journalist introduced me to the film: loved everything but the ending because he wins after being so manipulative

    • @DavetheGrue
      @DavetheGrue 6 місяців тому +1

      Did Walter win? Or did Hildy? I have always suspected that deep down she knew she wasn't serious about Bruce and she brought him by for Walter to see for a reason.

  • @barrywerdell2614
    @barrywerdell2614 7 місяців тому +4

    try "Father Goosr"

    • @jj05167
      @jj05167 7 місяців тому

      Father Goose is another Cary Grant favorite

  • @RossM3838
    @RossM3838 7 місяців тому

    The original romantic comedy is it happened one night with Clark gable. He is another reporter willing to to anything for a scoop. Frank Capra cleaned up the awards with this great movie.

  • @allenruss2976
    @allenruss2976 7 місяців тому

    I loved watching these movies when they came on during the weekends as a child in the 70s. If you want a fun ride for your retro movies you'll want to do the On the Road movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. They were hysterical and raunchy for the day

  • @hennakettunen8755
    @hennakettunen8755 5 місяців тому

    Ooh, reacting to an oldie, a classic! ❤ Please, another fantastic movie with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis: Operation Petticoat! An amazing comedy, still makes me laugh, after all these decades and after umpteen watches!

  • @nellgwenn
    @nellgwenn 4 місяці тому

    Hildy was still in love with Walter. She was giving him one last chance to get back together. If she really loved Bruce she would have just written Walter a letter after her and Bruce were married. Or not do anything at all.
    The pace and dialog in this movie was an inspiration for the TV show Moonlighting. If you've never watched that show, which I assume you haven't due to your reaction to this movie I highly recommend it. It stars Cybill Shepherd and a very young Bruce Willis.

  • @jeffreycody5217
    @jeffreycody5217 6 місяців тому

    Another great movie about the newspaper game with a screenplay by Ben Hecht (former Chicago reporter) and with contributions from others, is "Nothing Sacred" (1938). It is a masterpiece of cynicism starring Fredric March and Carole Lombard with one of my all time favorite lines about newsmen, "the hand of God reaching down into the mire couldn't elevate one of them to the depths of degradation". Very funny!

  • @lukebarton5075
    @lukebarton5075 5 місяців тому

    Great film! After doing “The Philadelphia Story” if you’ve not already seen it, it would be great to see “High Society”

  • @deckofcards87
    @deckofcards87 6 місяців тому +1

    Not sure how you came away thinking this movie is pro-press, it's critical of the press. But it takes a nuanced approach to the morality of these characters and situations. In a more mediocre comedy it would be black and white about it (no pun intended.)

  • @mmxxiii9503
    @mmxxiii9503 7 місяців тому +1

    Your makeup matches with the movie, great 😃👍

  • @Ian349
    @Ian349 7 місяців тому

    Clariss I love your channel you’re my favorite reaction channel

  • @wadeheaton123
    @wadeheaton123 2 місяці тому

    So Gotta do Bringing Up Baby. Kate and Cary. Directed by Howard Hawks as well

  • @jaddlawand2358
    @jaddlawand2358 7 місяців тому

    Jadd J.A.D.D. Jadd
    This movie was fantastic and tons of fun.

  • @Mascro1977
    @Mascro1977 6 місяців тому

    I believe this movie in the public domain

  • @iamclassicforlife
    @iamclassicforlife 7 місяців тому

    I'd love it if you made video essays!! Especially if they involve Kate Hepburn!!
    I hope you watch Be Kind Rewind, she's so good!!!

  • @zhubajie6940
    @zhubajie6940 2 місяці тому

    Hope you will go enjoy Ralph Bellamy in his roles in the 1983 film Trading Places and as a cameo in the 1988 film Coming to America or his last film the 1990 Pretty Woman.

  • @jsharp3165
    @jsharp3165 6 місяців тому

    If anyone likes Gilmore Girls (or even Mrs. Maisel), you need to thank this movie and many other "screwball" comedies of the '30s and '40s. Amy Sherman-Palladino modeled the rapid-fire dialog and asides of Lorelai and Rory on this film in particular. (In fact, it made an appearance on the show during a movie night.)

  • @cwdkidman2266
    @cwdkidman2266 5 місяців тому

    Dont judge the 30s/40s by Howard Hawks. He is STILL ahead of his time. Plus, he invented Cary Grant over the course of 3 movies. 1938 was Bringing Up Baby (nerd Cary and the first use of "gay" on film to denote homosexuality), 1939 Only Angels Have Wings (tough guy action hero Grant) and 1940 (His Girl Friday, Evil Comic Actor Grant, who uses ruthlessness to fight for the truth against equally ruthless city & state leaders). 1937's The Awful Truth made Grant a Romcom lead and he would have stayed there if not for Bringing Up Baby &Only Angels Have Wings&His Girl Friday proved he could do it all. While being gorgeous. The greatest FILM actor of the Golden Age.
    And Hawks gave him the tools. America's first auteur director was also the most optimistic and least sentimental and most...civilized director around. And he was never given an Oscar. Except that lifetime one. His reward for making cheerful yet unmawkish movies that never ignored the darkness of life? He has the most films in the Library Of Congress' National Film Registry of any director: 11 to John Ford's 10 and Hitchcock's 9.
    Yes, His Girl Friday was nasty. But look at whom he was fighting. A murderously corrupt mayor and Sheriff.

  • @iamclassicforlife
    @iamclassicforlife 7 місяців тому

    one of my favorites!!

  • @custardflan
    @custardflan 7 місяців тому

    Probably the other great newspaper movie is All the President's Men. Absence of Malice is pretty good.

  • @noneoyb8902
    @noneoyb8902 6 місяців тому

    If you like smart, fast dialogue you should check out the TV series "Moonlighting". It stars a then-unknown actor named Bruce Willis.

  • @Dahaka-rd6tw
    @Dahaka-rd6tw 6 місяців тому

    Could you take a look of either The 7th Voyage of Sinbad or The Golden Voyage of Sinbad ? BOth by Rey Harryhausen. (No, they are not really connected in any way other than being based on story of Sinbad the Sailor)

  • @thomastimlin1724
    @thomastimlin1724 6 місяців тому

    Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. What's Up Doc, Barbra Streisand and the recently late Ryan O'Neal. Casablanca is a must!!! If you're going to constantly talk over and step on lines, at least you put up the words on the picture, good idea. That's just your style. But I can't complain much, you're very pretty, and smart. There are so many classic old moves from the 1930's, 40's 50's you should see, you'll get a real education. The ones like these you watch are known as "screwball comedies."

  • @custardflan
    @custardflan 7 місяців тому

    Just su scribed. Love reactions to classic movies.

  • @christianciv1998
    @christianciv1998 7 місяців тому

    Hi Clariss

  • @damaniqphillip2756
    @damaniqphillip2756 6 місяців тому

    Oh cool ❤

  • @BobbyMoore2-mp8wb
    @BobbyMoore2-mp8wb 7 місяців тому

    😅😅

  • @HuntingViolets
    @HuntingViolets 7 місяців тому

    For more modern fast-talking comedies, see the TV series _Moonlighting, Gilmore Girls,_ and _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel._

  • @robsambosky6444
    @robsambosky6444 6 місяців тому

    Try not to be such a potty mouth. It only detracts from the otherwise good quality of your vids.

  • @HonRevPTB
    @HonRevPTB 3 місяці тому

    Cary Grant snd the lovely Irene Dunne made some amazing films as well, but I implore you, please do The Awful Truth on here, you'll LOVE it, & I think your audience will too, it's hysterical!!!

  • @quiredskywalker4422
    @quiredskywalker4422 7 місяців тому +2

    100 mph movie 😂