28. Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson
      His Girl Friday (1940)

It takes a hell of a woman to go toe-to-toe with Cary Grant, and Russell plays exactly that, a whip-smart journalist trying to retire in favor of marriage and children. Her razor-sharp banter with Grant sparkles. (Legend has it that she paid a writer $200 a week to pen her retorts when she realized that Grant had all the best lines.) Both witty and warm, Russell deftly pits Hildy’s passion for her career against her longing for a family.

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