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Contents 1 Query 2 Tarantino 3 Hudsucker Proxy 4 Trivia

[edit] Query

Why is the title of the film 'His Girl Friday'? Lachatdelarue (talk) 2 July 2005 20:56 (UTC)

A "girl Friday" is a mid-20th century term for a female assistant who performs a wide range of chores. It's an adaptation of "man Friday", which in turn comes from the character "Friday", Robinson Crusoe's native servant in Robinson Crusoe. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:15, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I read somewhere that this was the first cinematic example of overlapping dialogue. Can anybody corroborate this? Clarityfiend 04:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tarantino

I removed "Noted to be Quentin Tarantino's fourth favorite movie." It's not particularly notable and is already in the Tarantino article. Besides, according to that article, his favorites seem to change with time. Clarityfiend 05:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy is heavily colored by this movie, especially the newsroom scenes. Is it worth a mention?

[edit] Trivia

In the Trivia section of this article it is stated that, "Walter tells Ralph Bellamy's character that he looks a lot like an actor...Ralph Bellamy."

As I recall the scene, Walter is on the phone describing the Bellamy character to an accomplice of his named "Louie." It is during this converstaion that Walter mentions to Louie that the Bellamy character looks like that actor Ralph Bellamy. He never to my recollection makes this observation directly to Bellamy.

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