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"I wish you hadn't done that, Hildy  -- divorce me, that is. Makes a fellow lose all faith in himself. Almost gives him a feeling he wasn't wanted."

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His Girl Friday is playing on TV now.  I still love that old black and white movie.  The bickering, the bantering, and, considering it being pre-feminism, it argues for a great deal of equality in a relationship. 

"What's the use of fighting, Hildy? I'll tell you what we'll do. You come back to work on the paper, and if we find we can't get along in a friendly fashion, we'll get married again."

"Oh Walter, you're wonderful ... in a loathsome sort of way."

"All right, leave. Work for somone else. That's the gratitude I get. {..} I made a great reporter out of you.  We're a team, that's what we are. You need me and I need you, and the paper needs both of us."

"Walter, the paper's gonna have to get along without me. So are you. It just didn't work out for us."

"Well, it would have worked out if you'd been satisfied with just being editor and reporter - but not you! You had to marry me and spoil everything."

Plus... it's Cary Grant.  :sigh: Cary Grant.

Heh.

"There are 365 days a year to get married, Hildy. How often do you have a condemned murderer locked in a desk?"

Date: 2005-09-23 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fenchurche.livejournal.com
Oh man... "His Girl Friday" is the *best*.

Date: 2005-09-24 02:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
It is one of my absolute favorites.

Date: 2005-09-23 09:00 am (UTC)
shapinglight: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shapinglight
I love that movie too. In fact, I love almost any Cary Grant film, but that's a favourite, along with Arsenic & Old Lace and The Philadelphia Story.

Date: 2005-09-23 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sp23.livejournal.com
Oh, yes! I forgot about Arsenic & Old Lace. The first time I saw it on TV, I almost hurt myself laughing. Such a terrific movie.

Date: 2005-09-23 02:31 pm (UTC)
shapinglight: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shapinglight
Though it actually verges on the scary sometimes. Very black humour.

Date: 2005-09-23 03:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sp23.livejournal.com
I adore black humor. The entire idea of two sweet little old ladies poisoning their tenants is in no way funny. Except here. *g*

Date: 2005-09-24 02:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
I also adore The Philadelphia Story.

Date: 2005-09-23 09:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] petzipellepingo.livejournal.com
Not to mention the crack about Ralph Bellamy's character looking like Ralph Bellamy. Nothing better than fourth wall nonsense.

Date: 2005-09-24 02:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
Hee! Or Walter's line about Archie Leech (Cary Grant's real name).

Date: 2005-09-23 01:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pfeifferpack.livejournal.com
Oh yes....anything with Cary at any age (I personally love the Philadelphia Story best of all, but any of his films is worth the time to savor.).

Kathleen

Date: 2005-09-24 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
I remember Entertainment Weekly once calling him "A genetic gift to mankind." Handsome, suave and witty. He never goes out of style.

Date: 2005-09-24 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pfeifferpack.livejournal.com
The male genders version of the basic black dress! Yup. He should have come around in the future when they perfect cloning so we could all have one!

Kathleen
Hum...your icon is another yummy man. Johnny Depp and James Marsters are the same age and IMHO two of the most talented actors (not to mention sex on legs) of their generation. Sigh............

Date: 2005-09-23 01:39 pm (UTC)
spikewriter: (Default)
From: [personal profile] spikewriter
I adore that film. Kind of scary to realize that the script was apparently double the normal size -- they just talk so fast that it squeezes to a very compact, fast-moving package.

Date: 2005-09-24 02:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
Also kind of scary to realize that the movie is SIXTY-FIVE years old!

Date: 2005-09-23 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sp23.livejournal.com
I loved Cary Grant so much when I was a young girl. Charming and handsome and great at comedy. His Girl Friday is right up there with The Philadelphia Story as one of my favorite CG movies. :)

Date: 2005-09-24 02:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
Cary Grant is one of my eternal faves (along with Katherine Hepburn and Bette Davis)

Date: 2005-09-23 03:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meko00.livejournal.com
Ah, yes!

The actors, the actors, the actors, the meta, the SCRIPT. I adore it, but at the same time I have a niggling doubt about Hildy and the way she caves so easily - which, OK, only goes to prove she loves Walter and yes, pre-feminism equality in the workplace yadda, yadda, yadda. (I'm writing this at my wonderful rolltop desk, btw.)

Date: 2005-09-24 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
I've always gone with the thought that Hildy never actually wanted to marry the other guy. It was always a (albeit perhaps subconscious) effort to force Cary to win her back.

Date: 2005-09-24 09:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meko00.livejournal.com
Oh, I'm sure she did want Walter back, it's just that it doesn't really answer everything for me.

Love the icon, btw. :-)

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