Screwball Sundays: His Girl Friday

Join us for a rare screening of the screwball comedy cinema classic His Girl Friday at the Palm Springs Cultural Center.

SCREWBALL SUNDAYS

April 5 - June 21

2PM Pre-Show | 3PM Film

Screwball comedies don’t just flirt with disorder—they weaponize it. Rapid-fire dialogue, mismatched lovers, social norms turned upside down, and women who refuse to behave “properly.” Screwball Sundays celebrates the genre at its most playful and subversive, pairing razor-sharp wit with big-hearted romance and impeccable comic timing.

Join us Sunday afternoons for six deliriously entertaining classics—each a reminder that love is often loud, illogical, and very funny. Each film screens on the BIG SCREEN in the Historic Camelot Theatre.

JUNE 21 | His Girl Friday (1940)

Directed by Howard Hawks

Starring Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant

Film Intro: Matthew Kennedy

The gold standard of fast-talking comedy, His Girl Friday fires dialogue like a machine gun and never lets up. Russell’s Hildy Johnson is one of cinema’s great heroines—brilliant, ambitious, and always two steps ahead—matched beat for beat by Grant’s charmingly ruthless editor. A breathless, brilliant finale to the series.

MATTHEW KENNEDY is a Film historian and author and the former curator and host of the film series at the Mechanics Institute Library in San Francisco. He is the author of Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes, Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, and On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide, and has written for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Turner Classic Movies, and the National Film Registry.