Editing The Front Page (section)

==Adaptations==
''The Front Page'' has been adapted for film and radio a number of times:
* ''[[The Front Page (1931 film)|The Front Page]]'' (1931), directed by [[Lewis Milestone]], starring [[Adolphe Menjou]] and [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]].<ref name=tcm>[https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/64127 " ''The Front Page'', 1931"] tcm.com, accessed June 9, 2016</ref>
* The 1931 film was presented as a one-hour radio adaption on June 28, 1937,  by ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'', starring [[Walter Winchell]] and [[James Gleason]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ck0bAAAAIBAJ&pg=2173%2C4018401 |title=Lux Radio Theatre (advertisement) |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |page=18 |date=1937-06-28 |access-date=2020-05-26 }}</ref>
* ''[[His Girl Friday]]'' (1940), directed by [[Howard Hawks]], starring [[Cary Grant]] as Walter and [[Rosalind Russell]] as Hildy, who in this version is a woman and Walter's ex-wife. A romantic element is added to the plot, as Walter is trying to win Hildy back both professionally and personally.<ref name=tcm/>
* In 1940 [[Lux Radio Theatre]] adapted ''His Girl Friday'' as a radio program starring [[Claudette Colbert]] (who turned down the film role) as Hildy and [[Fred MacMurray]] as Walter Burns. It was first broadcast on September 30, 1940.
* The 1931 film was adapted for radio on June 22, 1946, by ''[[Academy Award (radio)|Academy Award Theater]]'', with Menjou and O'Brien reprising their roles from the film.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/57726839/?terms=%22Academy+Award+Theater+Pat+OBrien+Adolph+Menjou%22 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Radio Programs |newspaper=The Brooklyn Eagle |page=11 |date=1946-06-22 |access-date=2020-05-26 }}</ref>
* A 1948 radio series titled ''The Front Page'' and based loosely on the play ran on the [[American Broadcasting Company]] (ABC) network.<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=John |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22The+Front+Page,+lighthearted+crime+drama%22&pg=PA273 |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=273 |edition=Revised |access-date=2018-11-11}}</ref> It starred [[Dick Powell]] and [[William Conrad]].
* ''[[The Front Page (TV series)|The Front Page]]'' (1949), [[CBS Television]] series, starring [[John Charles Daly|John Daly]] and [[Mark Roberts (actor)|Mark Roberts]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&dq=%22Front+Page,+The%22&pg=PA508 |first1=Tim |last1=Brooks |first2=Earle |last2=Marsh |title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows - 1946-Present |date=24 June 2009 | edition=2007 |page=508 |publisher=Random House Publishing |isbn=978-0-345-49773-4 |access-date=2018-11-11 }}</ref>
* ''[[The Front Page (1974 film)|The Front Page]]'' (1974), directed by [[Billy Wilder]], starring [[Jack Lemmon]] and [[Walter Matthau]].<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Movie Review The Front Page (1974): Wilder's Uneven Film of 'Front Page'|author-link=Vincent Canby|first=Vincent|last=Canby|date=December 19, 1974|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/19/archives/wilders-uneven-film-of-front-pagethe-cast.html}}</ref>
* ''[[Switching Channels]]'' (1988), starring [[Burt Reynolds]] and [[Kathleen Turner]], with the newspaper reporters updated to television reporters and none of the original dialogue retained.<ref name=canby>Canby, Vincent. [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/04/movies/film-turner-in-switching-channels.html?pagewanted= "Film: Turner in 'Switching Channels'"] ''The New York Times'', March 4, 1988</ref>

''His Girl Friday'' and ''Switching Channels'' changed the male lead Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson to women, Hildegaard "Hildy" Johnson and Christy Colleran respectively.<ref name=canby/> [[John Varley (author)|John Varley]]'s 1991 [[science fiction]] novel ''[[Steel Beach]]'' takes the story &mdash; and the change of sex &mdash; to another level; the plot includes a sex-change by a male reporter named Hildy Johnson.

There have also been four television productions, all under the title ''The Front Page'':
* 1945, in the US;
* 1948, in the UK;
* 1949&ndash;1950 (see above) in the US as a series on CBS;
* 1970, in the US

The [[musical theatre|musical]] ''[[Windy City (musical)|Windy City]]'' (book and lyrics by [[Dick Vosburgh]], music by [[Tony Macaulay]]) was also based on ''The Front Page''.<ref>Klein, Alvin. [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/20/nyregion/theater-the-front-page-as-a-musical.html?pagewanted= "Theater; 'The Front Page' As a Musical"] ''The New York Times'', October 20, 1985</ref> It premiered at the [[Victoria Palace Theatre]], [[London]], England on July 20, 1982 and ran for 250 performances.

Additionally, Hecht and MacArthur's story for the 1939 film ''[[Gunga Din (film)|Gunga Din]]'' recycles their basic plot of trying to dissuade someone from leaving his job, in this case [[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]]'s character attempting to resign his post in the British army and comrades [[Cary Grant]] and [[Victor McLaglen]] conniving to prevent it.

Film critic [[Leonard Maltin]] describes the 1940 film ''[[Torrid Zone]]'' as a 3.5-out-of-4-star “variation on Front Page”.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F60TAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Torrid+Zone%22&pg=PA2427 |first=Leonard |last=Maltin |title=Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (2015 edition) |edition=2015 |publisher=Signet (Penguin Group) |year=2014 | page=245 |isbn=978-0-698-18361-2 |access-date=2023-04-21 }}</ref> Set among the highly competitive banana plantations of Central America, it stars James Cagney as the invaluable employee, Pat O'Brien as the amoral boss who will stop at nothing to keep him from leaving, George Tobias as a revolutionary awaiting the firing squad, and Ann Sheridan as love interest, with snappy dialogue provided by Richard Macaulay and Jerry Wald.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Torrid Zone (1940) - Overview - TCM.com|url=http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/title/3420/Torrid-Zone/|access-date=2020-06-13|website=Turner Classic Movies|language=en}}</ref>

The 2013 graphic novel, ''Nemo: Heart of Ice'', by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, has a prose afterword purportedly written by Hildy Johnson, who visits Lincoln Island to write about the wedding of [[Captain Nemo]]'s granddaughter to the son of [[Robur the Conqueror]].