Boy Meets Girl (1938 film)

Boy Meets Girl is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring James Cagney and Pat OBrien. 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 OBrien were based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, while Ralph Bellamys part as the producer was based on Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century Fox.

Larry is tired of having a scenestealing baby as a costar, and his agent, Rossetti Frank McHugh, devises a scheme to have Larry woo Susie in order to marry her and, as Happys father, get him out of show business and into a normal life. When they hear about this, Benson and Law hire Rodney, unaware that Susie knows him, to pretend to be Susies longlost husband, Happys father Rodney thinks its just an acting job, and is not in on the deception. Their plan works, and Larry disavows any planned future with Susie, but an wanted result is that Baby Happy is fired due to the scandal.When their plot is exposed, the two writers are fired, and Law makes plans to move to Vermont to suffer and write the Great American Novel, but Benson, whose wife has just left him, is too deep in debt to leave so they come up with another plan. They have a friend in London send a wire to B.K. Pierre Watkin, the head of the studio, with an offer from a British studio to buy it, as long as Baby Happy is under contract. Under the circumstances, Happy, Benson and Law are all rehired. ........

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