The fathers of the franchise, Chicago newspapermen turned playwrights and then screen writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur..

O'Brien takes a swing at his editor Menjou.

"Who me?" Adolphe Menjou seems to ask as O'Brien looks on.

The jackals of the press turn on poor Mae Clark (Molly Malloy) .

Rosalind Russell ('Hildy' Johnson) in His Girl Friday commiserates with Helen Mack (Molly Malloy) as she is tortured by the boys in the press room.

Ralph Bellamy, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday.

Ralph Bellamy and Rosalind Russell share a moment in His Girl Friday.