Synopsis
Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes57%
Metacritic62/100
394 audience votes
Key crew
- Billy WilderDirector
- I. A. L. DiamondScreenplay
- Billy WilderScreenplay
Cast
- Jack LemmonHildebrand Johnson
- Walter MatthauWalter Burns
- Susan SarandonPeggy Grant
- Vincent GardeniaSheriff
- David WayneRoy Bensinger
- Allen GarfieldKruger
- Austin PendletonEarl Williams
- Charles DurningMurphy
- Herb EdelmanSchwartz
- Martin GabelDr. Max J. Eggelhofer
- Harold GouldMayor
- Cliff OsmondOfficer Jacobi
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Themes
chicago, illinoisnewspaperjournalistmarriage proposalstressfather-in-lawnewspaper man
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