The Girl on the Front Page

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The Girl on the Front Page
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Directed by Harry Beaumont
Produced by
Written by
Starring
Music by Heinz Roemheld
Cinematography Milton R. Krasner
Edited by Philip Cahn
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release dates
September 27, 1936
Running time
75 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Girl on the Front Page is a 1936 American comedy crime film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart and Reginald Owen.[1] It was produced and distributed by Hollywood major Universal Pictures.

Synopsis

After inheriting a newspaper from her father, the socialite Joan Langford clashes with the managing editor Hank Gilman. He is a hard-bitten newsman who resents her interference in the running of the paper. Disguising herself as an aspiring young journalist, she gets a job at the paper. Although Gilman is in fact well aware of who she is and assigns her to very difficult assignments to convince her that the newspaper business is not for her. However she eventually gains his respect, and together they thwart an attempt at blackmail by Langford's British butler who is revealed to be the head of a society of criminal servants.

Main cast

References

  1. Gates p.106-7

Bibliography

  • Gates, Phillipa. Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film. SUNY Press, 2011.

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