His Girl Friday (1940)
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can’t let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.
Morgan (Frank Shannon) pays off Randy (Smith Ballew) and Barry (Stanley Fields) with a promissory note to be collected at the Blake ranch.
They arrive to find Mrs. Blake (Ruth Robinson) sick and without any money, her back taxes due, her ranch hands departed, and her son in need of an operation.
With Randy attracted to Janet (Cecilia Parker) and Barry hoping to help Danny (Wally Albright), the two decide to stay.
Nanny, a London family’s live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he’s been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny’s prepared or take a bath with her in the room.
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Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can’t let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.
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