The film""s only awarded honor at the ime was a Golden Globe nomination for Danny Kaye""s Best Performance by an Actor, Musical or Comedy.He tensely warned Cabot: "For you to get involved here, it""s like sleeping with another man""s wife, and what you are suggesting is that afterward, they can all live together under the same roof.It was financed due in part to the success of Disney""s earlier animated short,The Three Little Pigs (1933).The original film version ofHis Girl Fridaywas director Lewis Milestone""s big hitThe Front Page (1931), produced by Howard Hughes and released by United Artists.Fearing that he will lose both his ex-wife and his star reporter, he suggests hat she come back to the paper and work with him to see if they can get along: "What""s the use of fighting, Hildy? I""ll tell you what you do.