Character profile

Walter Burns

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Walter Burns is the forceful newspaper editor at the center of His Girl Friday and the former husband of star reporter Hildy Johnson. Determined to stop Hildy from leaving journalism and remarrying, he uses a major criminal case and a series of schemes to keep her in the newsroom.

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Quotes by Walter Burns

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“The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach.”

— Walter Burns《His Girl Friday》

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Movie · 1940

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures.

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