January 11, 1940 –
The classic newspaper comedy, His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, opened in New York on this date.
The film finished shooting seven days behind schedule. The delays were caused by the complexity of shooting the rapid-fire dialogue, which had to be carefully timed with business and movement. The restaurant scene in which Burns takes Hildy and Bruce to lunch took four days to shoot. The original schedule had only allotted two days for the scene.
The Haus of Dcaligari 