Anecdote of the Week: "I don't want to kill the woman."

Notes from the set of His Girl Friday, courtesy of Rosalind Russell in her autobiography Life Is a Banquet:

We had been shooting two days when I began to wonder if his instructing me that my suit should be kind of hard-boiled-looking was the only advice I was going to get from Mr. Hawks. He sprawled in a chair, way down on the end of his spine, and his e…