Boy Meets Girl (1938 film)

Boy Meets Girl
Boy Meets Girl
	theatrical release poster
Directed by	Lloyd Bacon
Screenplay by	Bella Spewack; Sam Spewack
Based on	Boy Meets Girl; 1935 play; by Bella Spewack and Sam Spewack
Produced by	Samuel Bischoff
Starring	James Cagney; Pat O'Brien
Cinematography	Sol Polito
Edited by	William Holmes
Production; company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	August 27, 1938;
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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.^[1]^[2] The screenplay by Bella and Sam Spewack is based on their 1935 stage play of the same name,^[3]^[4]^[5] which ran for 669 performances on Broadway.^[6] 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.^[7]

^ "Boy Meets Girl". Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved October 3, 2022.
^ Hal Erickson (2008). "Boy Meets Girl". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 4, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
^ Goble 1999, p. 696.
^ King 1997, p. 52.
^ Fischer 2013, p. 243.
^ "Boy Meets Girl" on the Internet Broadway Database
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