The Front Page

…was adapted from a hit play of the same name by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with much of their witty rapid-fire dialogue kept intact. Menjou, who often played high-class debonair characters, was honoured with an Academy Award nomination (one of three the film received) for his against-type performance. The…

His play The Front Page (1928), written with Charles MacArthur, influenced the public’s idea of the newspaper world and the newspaperman’s idea of himself.

…Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s The Front Page.

…and earned critical acclaim with The Front Page (1928), a farce about a star reporter who is drawn into his own story. This play was three times adapted for film, in 1931, 1974, and most notably—starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell—as His Girl Friday (1940). MacArthur and Hecht also achieved…