His Girl Friday is a 1940 English-language Comedy Drama film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hawks under the banner of Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. His girl friday stars Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex and Delmar Watson. The screenplay is written by Charles Lederer and Ben Hecht which is inspired from The Front Page 1928 play by Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur. Cinematography was done by Joseph Walker and editing by Gene Havlick. The movie has a running time of 92 minutes. It was released on 18th January 1940 and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. Distribution rights for the film were acquired by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man.

A drama film directed by Howard Hawks.