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Boy Meets Girl (1938) Rank 3 Reviews
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filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Watch for Ronald Reagan in a small role in this late 1930s screwball comedy that centers around a movie studio, two oddball writers (Cagney and O'Brien), and an unwed mother (Wilson) with her baby Happy. Happy's rise to superstardom is amusing, ...read the complete Boy Meets Girl movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Channel 4 Film
Boy Meets Girl: Sporadically sharp, 30s screwball comedy which lacks some of the bite of its peers but still manages to take a pretty decent swipe at the Hollywood system. ...read the complete Boy Meets Girl movie review at Channel 4 Film
Three Movie Buffs (Patrick Nash)
Originally a Broadway play Boy Meets Girl is a breezy and enjoyable little movie. Marie Wilson as Happy's mother nearly steals the show. Her only goal in life, other than keeping Happy happy, is to graduate from high school. In one scene she expresses ...read the complete Boy Meets Girl movie review at Three Movie Buffs (Patrick Nash)
Chicago Reader (Don Druker)
A likable spoof of Hollywood (1938), with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as fast-talking screenwriters, and Marie Wilson (the original dumb blond) around for pulchritudinous laughs. ...read the complete Boy Meets Girl movie review at Chicago Reader (Don Druker)
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by "scotsladdie" on January 28, 2003
Two crazy Hollywood scenerio writers make a star of an infant yet unborn. Robert Law (Jimmy) and J.C. Benson (Pat O'Brien) - two Hollywood screenwriters, are assigned to write a story for cowboy star Larry Toms, but nothing they write remotely pleases C. ...
by James L. on March 10, 2002
James Cagney and Pat O'Brien star in this screwball comedy about two movie writers (infamous for their antics) working at a struggling studio who need to come up with a hit script for its comboy star, Dick Foran. They stumble on the idea of using the ...
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