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Aug 24, 2020 · Not just for him, either. Apparently during the making of “Boy Meets Girl”—a send-up of the movie industry based on the 1935 hit Broadway play by the husband-wife team of Bella and Sam Spewack—producer Hal Wallis kept demanding a quicker pace and ordered director Lloyd Bacon to reshoot some scenes. From McCabe:
In this film, Robert Law and J.C. Benson are a pair of iconoclastic Hollywood screenwriters. Cynically declaring that every film can be boiled down to “Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl,” Law and Benson drive their studio-executive bosses crazy with their zany irreverence.
Feb 22, 2020 · The suit was settled in 1938, and Cagney was back at work at WB. His return film was the inside-Hollywood farce Boy Meets Girl, which was a recent Broadway hit. A rapid-fire parody of tinseltown excesses — it tracks the rise and fall of a literally newborn superstar — it allowed Cagney to stretch his comic chops.
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 ...
7/10. Cagney has a field day. Actors take note. joedonato234 11 June 2014. Cagney was always trying to break away from his tough guy image, and is obviously relishing this FAST paced screwball comedy (think THE FRONT PAGE/HIS GIRL Friday) about two zany screenwriters. He mugs, he shouts, he dances, he wise-cracks, acts fey-you name it, he does ...
Released August 26th, 1938, 'Boy Meets Girl' stars James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 26 min, and received a user score of 62 (out of ...
1938-01-01T23:23:59Z Date-start 1938-01-01T23:23:59Z Date-string 1938 Digitizing-sponsor Richard Koszarski Format Pressbooks Identifier pressbook-wb-boy-meets-girl Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8wb70113 Journal-title Boy Meets Girl (Warner Bros.) Ocr
