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The Creation of HIS GIRL FRIDAY

His Girl Friday • 3m 32s

This 1999 program explores how playwrights Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, writer Charles Lederer, and director Howard Hawks came together to create HIS GIRL FRIDAY.

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