ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the use of the nonverbal category of adaptors in one of Howard Hawks’ films, His Girl Friday (1939). It is part of a doctoral thesis that studies intrapersonal, interpersonal and nonverbal communication in the cinema of this American director through nine of his most emblematic movies: Scarface (1932), Bringing up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), Rio Bravo (1959) and Hatari! (1962).
