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6.2/10   258 votes
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Director:
Lloyd Bacon
Writers:
Bella Spewack (play) and
Sam Spewack (play) ...
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Release Date:
27 August 1938 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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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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Runtime:
86 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:G | Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #4156)
Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Company:
Warner Bros. Pictures more

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Trivia:
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. more
Quotes:
C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday: "Tiger Tamer". There it is, right there in the corner. "Tiger Tamer" by J. Carlyle Benson and Robert Law.
Robert Law: That's a forgery! Benson, we've been framed.
J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson: Why you...
C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday: This is the last prank you boys will ever play.
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Movie Connections:
References The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) more
Soundtrack:
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Poor, 12 March 2008
Author: Michael_Elliott from Louisville, KY

Boy Meets Girl (1938)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Extremely poor and unfunny spoof of Hollywood has two screenwriters (James Cagney/Pat O'Brien) coming up with a scheme to make their next film a hit. There's a lot of fast talking and some slapstick but I can't help but feel this should have been a film with The Marx Brothers instead. Cagney and O'Brien make a great team in dramas but their comedy act here just doesn't work and it comes off quite forced. The laughs are pushed so hard that it becomes rather annoying very quickly. Ralph Bellamy co-stars in this semi-redo of The Front Page. To date, this is the worst Cagney film I've seen.

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