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Front Page Woman is a 1935 American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 comedy film
Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on Humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies....
 directed by Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the United States, among the best-known being The Adventures of Robin Hood , Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas ....
. The screenplay
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 by Roy Chanslor, Laird Doyle, and Lillie Hayward is based on the novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 Women Are Bum Newspapermen by Richard Macauley.

n Garfield refuses to marry fellow reporter
Reporter

A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media.Reporters gather their information in a variety of ways, including tips, press releases, sources and witnessing events....
 Curt Devlin until he admits she is as good at her craft as any man. The two work for rival newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
s, and their ongoing efforts to better each other eventually leads to Ellen getting fired when Curt tricks her into misreporting the verdict
Verdict

In law, a verdict is the formal finding of fact made by a jury on matters or questions submitted to the jury by a judge....
 of a murder
Murder

Murder as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent , and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide....
 trial
Trial

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Front Page Woman is a 1935 American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 comedy film
Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on Humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies....
 directed by Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the United States, among the best-known being The Adventures of Robin Hood , Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas ....
. The screenplay
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 by Roy Chanslor, Laird Doyle, and Lillie Hayward is based on the novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 Women Are Bum Newspapermen by Richard Macauley.

Synopsis

Ellen Garfield refuses to marry fellow reporter
Reporter

A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media.Reporters gather their information in a variety of ways, including tips, press releases, sources and witnessing events....
 Curt Devlin until he admits she is as good at her craft as any man. The two work for rival newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
s, and their ongoing efforts to better each other eventually leads to Ellen getting fired when Curt tricks her into misreporting the verdict
Verdict

In law, a verdict is the formal finding of fact made by a jury on matters or questions submitted to the jury by a judge....
 of a murder
Murder

Murder as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent , and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide....
 trial
Trial

A trial is, in the most general sense, a test, usually a test to see whether something does or does not meet a given standard.It may refer to:...
. The tables are turned when she scoops him by getting the real perpetrator, Inez Cordoza, to confess to the crime. Forced to admit Ellen is a good reporter, he finally wins her hand.

Production notes

The film's working title was Women Are Born Newspapermen. The plots of the 1937 release Back in Circulation, allegedly based on a story by Adela Rogers St. John, and the 1938 Torchy Blane film Blondes at Work are very similar to Front Page Woman .

The Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
 release was one of three 1935 films co-starring Bette Davis
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
 and George Brent
George Brent

George Brent was an Ireland film and television actor in Cinema of the United States....
. The two were paired on-screen a total of thirteen times.

This was the fourth collaboration for Davis and director Michael Curtiz. The two worked together a total of seven times.

Principal cast

  • Bette Davis ..... Ellen Garfield
  • George Brent ..... Curt Devlin
  • Roscoe Karns
    Roscoe Karns

    Roscoe Karns was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 in film and 1964 in film.He played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective from 1950 to 1954....
     ..... Toots O'Grady
  • Wini Shaw
    Wini Shaw

    Wini Shaw was an United States actress, dancer and singer.Born Winifred Lei Momi in hawaii of Hawaiian descent, Wini began her entertainment career as a child in her parents' vaudeville act....
     ..... Inez Cordoza
  • Walter Walker ..... Judge Hugo Rickard
  • J. Carrol Naish
    J. Carrol Naish

    Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish was an United States character actor born in New York City, New York. Naish did many film roles, but they were eclipsed when he found fame in the title role of radio's Life with Luigi, which surpassed Bob Hope in the 1950 ratings....
     ..... Robert Cardoza
  • June Martel ..... Olive Wilson
  • J. Farrell MacDonald
    J. Farrell MacDonald

    J. Farrell MacDonald was an American film character actor and director who played supporting roles and occasional leads. MacDonald, who was sometimes billed as "John Farrell Macdonald", "J.F....
     ..... Hallohan


Principal production credits

  • Producer
    Film producer

    A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
     ..... Samuel Bischoff
    Samuel Bischoff

    Samuel Bischoff , was an United States film producer who was responsible for more than 400 full-length movies, two-reel comedies, and serials between 1923 in film and 1964 in film....
  • Original Music
    Film score

    A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
     ..... Heinz Roemheld
  • Musical Supervision
    Music supervision

    A music supervisor, also sometimes called a music coordinator or musical director, is an individual who combines music and visual media.The title of music supervisor is used by many media companies including film studios, TV networks, ad agencies, and a wide of range other media producers....
     ..... Leo F. Forbstein
    Leo F. Forbstein

    Leo F. Forbstein was an Academy Award-winning film Music supervision and Conducting who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period....
  • Cinematography
    Cinematography

    Cinematography , is the making of Stage lighting and camera choices when recording photographic s for the film. It is closely related to the art of photography....
     ..... Tony Gaudio
    Tony Gaudio

    Tony Gaudio, A.S.C. was the chief photographer for Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, and the first cinematographer to use a montage sequence in a film....
  • Art Direction
    Art director

    The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film industry and television, the Internet, and video games....
     ..... John Hughes


Critical reception

The New York Times said, "The three writers who adapted it . . . did a clever script job and Michael Curtiz directed at a brisk pace. Add to that a cast with a neat sense of comedy and you have an excellent tonic for the mid-July doldrums."

Variety
Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Hollywood, was founded by Silverman in 1933....
 said, "[It] lacks authenticity and is so far fetched it'll hand newsscribes around the country a constant run of ripples. But it's light and has some funny lines and situations."

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