His Girl Friday is the paradigmatic screwball comedy and a quintessential example of the Depression-era "comedy of remarriage." Rarely have rapid-fire dialogue, gesturally precise performance, nuanced mise-en-scène, Classical Hollywood lighting, and invisible editing been so seamlessly integrated. The most quietly acerbic of all newspaper films, it provides insights into the vagaries of politics and journalism that are as incisive now as they were when the film was released.