Director Howard Hawks reinvented the Ben Hecht–Charles Macarthur play The Front Page, about tabloid newspaper wars in Chicago, as a rapid-fire screwball romance for the ages by turning one of the main characters into a woman. Reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) spars with Cary Grant, who plays her ex-husband and editor.

Molly Haskell is a critic and author whose books include From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies and Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films. She won the 2017 career achievement award from the New York Film Critics Circle.