Cary Grant
Walter Burns
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Synopsis
A newspaper editor learns that his former wife and best reporter intends to remarry and leave journalism. He persuades her to cover one final execution story. Professional instinct, romantic manipulation and a developing news crisis combine to make departure increasingly difficult.
Cast
DirectorsHoward Hawks
Inspirations
The adaptation of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's The Front Page makes its reporter a woman and the editor's former wife. That structural change joins the newspaper rivalry to a romantic contest.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
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- Cary Grant — Grant,_Cary_(Suspicion)_01.jpg : RKO publicity photographer. derivative work: Crisco 1492 ( talk ) · Public domain
- Rosalind Russell — Unknown author · Public domain
- Ralph Bellamy — Lord Calvert / Photographer: Valentino Sarra · Public domain
- Gene Lockhart — RKO Radio Pictures · Public domain
