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Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

201725mMovieDocumentary

In this 25-minute video essay, film scholar David Bordwell, co-author of "Film Art: An Introduction", conducts an analysis of Howard Hawks's "His Girl Friday" (1940), which he believes to be the apotheosis of classical Hollywood…

ProducersFumiko Takagi·Peter Becker

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Cast

DBDavid Bordwell
David Bordwell
Self
RRRosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell
Self (archive footage)

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Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson hasn't started streaming in Canada yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around February 28, 2017. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.