The Front Page (1931 film)
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| Directed by | Lewis Milestone |
| Produced by | Lewis Milestone Howard Hughes |
| Written by | Bartlett Cormack Charles Lederer |
| Starring | Adolphe Menjou Pat O'Brien Mary Brian |
| Cinematography | Glen MacWilliams |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Running time | 101 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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The Front Page is the name of a 1931 motion picture starring Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien and directed by Lewis Milestone.
The movie was based on the Broadway play of the same name. The feature film was one of the movies nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture that year. Its screenplay was written by Bartlett Cormack. The movie also starred Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Matt Moore and Edward Everett Horton.
The movie is a "screwball comedy" about an investigative reporter (Pat O'Brien) and his fiancee (Mary Brian), who hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped accused murderer (Stone) and hide him in a rolltop desk while everybody else tries to find him.
The movie was also adapted into a one-hour episode of CBS radio's Academy Award Theater with O'Brien and Menjou. [1]
This film has been re-envisioned several times. The story was adapted for Howard Hawks's 1940 comedy His Girl Friday. A well-known 1974 version of The Front Page starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
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[edit] References
- ^ Terrace, Vincent [1999]. Radio Programs, 1924-1984:A Catalog of Over 1800 Shows. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0351-9.
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