Boy Meets Girl (1938)
1h 26m
Running Time
August 27, 1938Release Date
Boy Meets Girl (1938)
1h 26m
Running Time
August 27, 1938Release Date
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Plot.
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress.
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Cast & Crew.
James Cagney
Robert Law
Pat O’Brien
J.C. Benson
Marie Wilson
Susie Seabrook
Frank McHugh
Rossetti
Ralph Bellamy
C. Elliott Friday
Dick Foran
Larry Toms
Lloyd Bacon
Director
Bruce Lester
Rodney Bowman
Bella Spewack
Writer
Sam Spewack
Writer
Ronald Reagan
Announcer
Sol Polito
Cinematographer
Paul Clark
Happy
Penny Singleton
Peggy
William Holmes
Editor
Dennie Moore
Miss Crews
Harry Seymour
Song Writer
Bert Hanlon
Song Writer
James Stephenson
Major Thompson
Curt Bois
Dance Director
Loia Cheaney
Hospital Nurse
Eddie Conrad
Jascha Alexander
Hal K. Dawson
Wardrobe Attendant
Otto Fries
Olaf - Masseur
John Harron
Extra Talking to Rodney
George Hickman
Office Boy
Jan Holm
Hospital Nurse with Letter
Bert Howard
Director
Nenette Lafayette
Paris Operator
Carole Landis
Commissary Cashier
Vera Lewis
Studio Cleaning Woman
Peggy Moran
New York Operator
James Nolan
Young Man Brought in for Susie
John Ridgely
Simmons - Friday's Film Cutter
Cliff Saum
Smitty - Studio Policeman
Mary Ann Such
Young Girl
William Telaak
Bruiser
Rosella Towne
Hospital Nurse Wheeling Larry
Dorothy Vaughan
Happy's Nurse
Pierre Watkin
B.K. Whitacre
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Boy Meets Girl is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien. The supporting cast features Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran and Ronald Reagan. The screenplay by Bella and Sam Spewack is based on their 1935 stage play of the same name, which ran for 669 performances on Broadway. The two zany screenwriters played by Cagney and O'Brien were based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, while Ralph Bellamy's part as the producer was based on Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century Fox.