The Front Page (1931 film)

The Front Page is a 1931 American PreCode comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat OBrien. Based on a Broadway play of the same name, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer, and distributed by United Artists. The supporting cast includes Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Matt Moore, and Edward Everett Horton. At the 4th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture, Milestone for Best Director, and Menjou for Best Actor.

The film, considered a screwball comedy, centers on a reporter, Hildebrand Hildy Johnson Pat OBrien and his editor Adolphe Menjou, who hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped accused murderer, Earl Williams Stone and hide him in a rolltop desk while everybody else tries to find him.The film has been remade or adapted on several occasions. CBS radio turned it into a onehour episode of Academy Award Theater with OBrien and Menjou, June 28, 1937 episode of Lux Radio Theater with Walter Winchell and James Gleason and May 9, 1948 episode of the Ford Theatre starring Ed Begley and Everett Sloane. The story was adapted for Howard Hawkss comedy His Girl Friday 1940, a 1974 remake of The Front Page starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and another version was made as Switching Channels 1988 with Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner and Christopher Reeve. ........

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