Plot summary

Four months after her resignation, journalist Hildy Johnson returns to The Morning Post - just to tell her former boss and husband Walter Burns (Cary Grant) to stop bombarding her with telegrams, because she won't come back to him, and anyway, she is going to marry insurance agent Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy) the next day. When Walter learns that Hildy and Bruce are going to Albany already in two hours, he has to act very quickly. He immediately starts a series of clever schemes to get Bruce out of the way and Hildy back to journalism. He knows that Hildy cannot resist an enticing commission. Earl Williams (John Qualen) is a confused man who is going to be executed the following day, if The Morning Post does not succeed in convincing the governor to pardon him. Hildy sees the possibilities to get a scoop by interviewing Williams, and postpones her departure some hours. She gets more and more entangled in the case, and even helps Williams to hide, when he has run away from prison. Soon she and Walter work feverishly side by side, and her fiancé Bruce just annoys her.—Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}