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Todd McCarthy on HIS GIRL FRIDAY

His Girl Friday • 3m 27s

In this 1999 program, Todd McCarthy, author of “Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood,” discusses Howard Hawks’s evolution from writer to prestige director, and how he came to direct HIS GIRL FRIDAY.

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