#Recast February 11

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For February 2024 several of us will be participating in the “30-Day RE Coach4aday Challenge”. The challenge involves utilizing a word that includes the prefix Re. Today my word is RECAST .

Earlier this week I was channeling surfing and stumbled onto programming AMC was airing. The theme was about movies that had been remade and of course RECAST. They highlighted “A Star Is Born” which has been done 4 times beginning in 1937 and also in 1954, 1976, and 2018. Recasting for that film included Judy Garland (1954) Barbara Streisand (1976) and Lady Gaga (2010).

Another film was My Gal Friday.

Rules of the Challenge

Organizing the 30-Day RE Coach4aday Challenge involves performing, writing, or sharing about an event that captures the essence of the prefix. connections.

Here is how to participate.

1. Identify what word that uses the prefix RE you choosing for the day. It is okay to repeat words.
2. Describe or share how you accomplished utilizing that word.
3. Do this daily for 30 Days posting on social media with the hashtag #Coach4adayChallenge

February 11-My Gal Friday -Recast

In 1928 there was a hit on Broadway called The Front Page written by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur. It became a movie called by the same name in 1931. This film has actor Pat O’Brien as investigative reporter Hildy Johnson and Adolphe Menjou as his editor Walter Burns, the 1931 film is a classic buddy comedy.

In 1940 the film got remade under the name His Gal Friday. It got recast with Walter Burns (being played by Cary Grant) who will do anything to keep his star reporter, Hildy Johnson (played by Rosalind Russell), from leaving the paper. It went from a buddy comedy to a romantic comedy.

Here is the trailer from 1940