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Boy Meets Girl (1938)
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27 August 1938 (USA) morePlot:
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Too bad it doesn't live up to its simple title... moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| James Cagney | ... | Robert Law | |
| Pat O'Brien | ... | J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson | |
| Marie Wilson | ... | Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook | |
| Ralph Bellamy | ... | C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday | |
| Frank McHugh | ... | Rossetti | |
| Dick Foran | ... | Larry Toms | |
| Bruce Lester | ... | Rodney Bowman | |
| Ronald Reagan | ... | Radio announcer at premiere | |
| Paul Clark | ... | Happy Seabrook, the baby | |
| Penny Singleton | ... | Peggy, manicurist | |
| Dennie Moore | ... | Miss Crews, Friday's secretary | |
| Harry Seymour | ... | Green, songwriter | |
| Bert Hanlon | ... | Otto Slater, songwriter | |
| James Stephenson | ... | Major Thompson |
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Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USAFun Stuff
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The original award-winning play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 27 November 1935 and had 669 performances. The opening cast included Jerome Cowan and Allyn Joslyn as Benson and Law, and 'Everett Sloane' as Rosetti. There were 2 revivals, in 1943 and 1976. moreQuotes:
Rossetti: I've got Larry Toms waiting in your office to hear your story. Come on.Robert Law: We haven't got any stories.
J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson: Tell him one anyway.
Robert Law: Okay. Once there was a fairy princess who lived in a broken down castle, on a broken down river, with a broken down aunt. In fact, she was a broken down princess.
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With a Pain in My Heart (and My Heart on My Sleeve) moreFAQ
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Madcap screwball comedy doesn't get any madder than BOY MEETS GIRL which has JAMES CAGNEY and PAT O'BRIEN as two oddball screenwriters who play their annoying characters to the hilt. DICK FORAN plays an actor looking for a good story (lots of luck), claiming he gets fan mail from a lot of people who can't even write! FRANK McHUGH, RALPH BELLAMY and MARIE Wilson fill out the Warner contract players cast, all of them doing their usual schtick but with less funny results than usual. The script is nothing more than a fable about a Hollywood that never existed except as a playground for madness on a grand scale with all of the fast talking players caught up in an impossibly silly script about the search for a "new" story for Foran.
Not much can be said for Cagney and O'Brien--the ham is really overdone--and even RALPH BELLAMY overdoes the role of the studio head who has three films in production and doesn't know what's going on.
If you can stay with it through the first half-hour, this is your kind of screwball comedy. As for me, I had to tune out before it was over.
Trivia note: A bright moment has Bellamy declaring: "Do you boys know you're making more money than the president of the United States?"