{"id":2814,"date":"2010-08-26T13:29:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T13:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2010\/08\/his_girl_friday_1\/"},"modified":"2010-08-26T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T13:29:46","slug":"his_girl_friday_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/his_girl_friday_1\/","title":{"rendered":"His Girl Friday on TV Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow BBC2 is showing a couple of classic films during the daytime. At 11.00am there&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0030241\/\">Holiday<\/A> from 1938 with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. And then at 12.30 is 1940&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032599\/\">His Girl Friday<\/A>.<br \/>\nThis is a film that <A HREF=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002412.html\">I&#8217;ve mentioned before<\/A> as it&#8217;s one of my favourites of all time.<br \/>\nBut <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/His_Girl_Friday\">Wikipedia<\/A> noted a couple of things that I hadn&#8217;t come across &#8211; the radio adaptions. Nine months after its January 1940 release, it was adapted by the Lux Radio Theater &#8211; the subject of a recent Radio 4 <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00nrxkp\">Archive on 4<\/A> programme. That adaption featured Claudette Colbert, Fred Macmurray and Jack Carson in the main roles.<br \/>\nSix months later, however, it was again adapted by the rival Screen Guild Theater, this time with Grant and Russell in the main roles.<br \/>\nHappily the Internet Archive has both versions available to download! Of course, these radio versions do lose quite a lot of the original panache of the film, and in the Screen Guild Theater version, lose over two thirds of the running time (even with the famous rapid-fire dialogue, that&#8217;s a lot of missing action).<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Lux05\">Lux Radio Theater version.<\/A><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/ScreenGuildTheater\">The Screen Guild Theater version.<\/A><br \/>\nAnyway, if you&#8217;ve never seen this film, set your Sky+, Freeview+, V+ or other PVR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow BBC2 is showing a couple of classic films during the daytime. At 11.00am there&#8217;s Holiday from 1938 with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. And then at 12.30 is 1940&#8217;s His Girl Friday. This is a film that I&#8217;ve mentioned before as it&#8217;s one of my favourites of all time. But Wikipedia noted a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}